On December 13, 2016, a regulation came into force in the European Union, i.e. also in Slovenia, requiring food producers to label the nutritional value of foods. This means that from now on all prepackaged foods will have nutritional information. On the packaging, manufacturers will have to provide information on the energy value, amount of carbohydrates, total and saturated fats, salt, sugars and proteins. Only information on the amount of dietary fiber, which is not (yet) mandatory, has been omitted.
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If you are planning to travel abroad, it is wise to take a few minutes to study the map prepared by the experts at International SOS and Control Risks, which ranks tourist destinations according to the level of danger. Do not travel to these countries if you want to return home in one piece. These are the most dangerous tourist destinations of 2017.
The Representation of the European Commission in Slovenia and the House of the European Union have new premises on Dunajska cesta in Ljubljana. We talked to Zoran Stančič, the head of the Representation, about what will happen at the new interactive info point.
No, this swing is not for the faint of heart. 100 meters above the ground in Amsterdam (higher than London's Big Ben) is the Over The Edge swing, the tallest swing in Europe.
You will never guess which is the biggest tourist attraction in Europe. It had tough competition, as it faced the Eiffel Tower, Buckingham Palace, the Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona, the Roman Colosseum, the Acropolis of Athens and the Guinness Storehouse brewery in Dublin, which celebrated last year. The World Travel Awards Association awarded the tourism Oscar for the biggest tourist attraction this time to an attraction in Northern Ireland.
Palais Bulles or according to us, the bubble palace is the new most expensive apartment in Europe. The property on which the Hungarian architect Antti Lovag's space complex, which covers 1,200 square meters and was until now the home of the 94-year-old French fashion legend Pierre Cardin, is valued at more than 400 million euros!
In Slovenia, the picture is clear. The most common surname is Novak. Novakov is currently over 11,000 in Slovenia, followed by Horvat and Kovačič. What is the picture in Europe, you can read below, as well as what the most common surnames say about the character and history of individual European countries.
Did you know that our picture of the world is distorted? After seeing these photos, you will never look at the world the same again! The reason why some countries on the map are larger or smaller than others, even though they are not, is the antediluvian transverse Mercator projection or. a cylindrical map projection in which meridians and parallels are straight lines that intersect at right angles, and which allowed mariners to plot their course as straight lines. The result of transferring the surface of the Earth to paper is today's misconception of the size of some parts of the world. The projection of the three-dimensional world on paper has its price, and we pay it with a distorted picture of the world even today, even though the maritime industry no longer uses classic maps for navigation. That is why such cards are still hanging in schools and, among other things, falsely create the impression that Russia and the USA are so big.
Do you know which are the most beautiful European castles? Europe is full of castles. They are hiding in all corners of the old continent. Check out which European castles you must see if you find yourself near them, and even before that, see them from the air. Castles have always represented the power, dominance and wealth of the city, but today they are mainly tourist attractions.
I love you, I don't love you, I love you, I don't love you, ... Great Britain has decided that it no longer loves the European Union. Love died after 43 years. Time will tell what this means for the European Union, the euro, the markets and everything else, but we prefer to look at how the internet has treated Brexit.
Patience is an extraordinary timelapse of Europe by photographer Paul Richardson, consisting of 300 thousand photos! According to its author, recording timelapse footage requires a lot of patience and planning. He put as much as 1000 hours of work into the editing alone – the compilation consists of footage from all over Europe – which means that he spent a whopping seven hours for just one second!
Borders between countries in Europe fell with the advent of the European Union and the Schengen area. Formerly warring/subdued countries live in coexistence today, which also reflects the situation at the borders or former border crossings, where walls and soldiers once stood, and later customs officials, but today we hardly notice that we are in an area that divides countries or countries. Check out the photo series Borderline, Frontiers of Peace, which shows what borders between countries in Europe look like.