07/04/2006 :: On 13 March the Commission announced that the Spanish project “Vía de la Plata- Extremadura” had won one of five top prizes in the 2005 European Heritage Award. Since 1997 the EEA/EFTA Financial Mechanism (FMO) has funded the Spanish reconstruction project in Extremadura with close to 20 million euro. + More

27/05/2004 :: Stavanger, Norway, has been designated as European Capital of Culture for the year 2008, along with Liverpool, England. The European Capital of Culture event was launched by the Council in 1985. Bergen was designated the status of Capital ... + More