ADVERTISEMENT From this October, a section of the Juliana Canal in Limburg, stretching between Berg aan de Maas and Born, will be dried up for the following six-month.In order for repair works to be carried out. This 2.5 mile stretch has caused outrage among skippers, as the alternative route takes two days, with an estimated additional expenses of 4 million euros per day.... Germany, Portugal and the Netherlands see inflation rates slip The detour directs ships via the lock at Limmel, Maastric

ADVERTISEMENT Severe floods have hit southwest France, the third time in just six months. Charente-Maritime is now on orange alert, following Pas-de-Calais and Gironde.... This scenario is being repeated just three months after the last flood, which affected thousands of homes.It's" unbelievable", said one resident on Monday, who admitted that he was" fed up".... He goes to check on a neighbour who had fifty centimetres of water in her house at the beginning of December. Why are France, German