Multilingual media

Find an overview on multilingual and English-speaking media offers in the Euregio. We also included an overview on the most important local media in German, Dutch, and French. Head to our section on multilingual media for children for media suggestions for the little ones.

Bi-national news and information
Euregional news
Bi-national news and information

Arte is a television broadcaster with regular content in both German and French (and selected content in four more languages).

Belgien.net (DE only) collects various information on life in Belgium, from a German perspective.

Café de Buren (NL only) was a publically broadcasted series on Flemish-Dutch cultural differences.

Grenspost Düsseldorf (NL and DE only) is an example of German-Dutch newspapers, Niederlande Net by the University of Münster enlists news on Dutch politics and society (DE only).

Euregional news

Euregio-Aktuell, Aachen-based, collects news from the Euregio (presented in German)

Euronews informs about events happening anywhere in Europe.

Meuse-Rhine Gazette is the only source of relevant news, information, culture, events, career and current affairs across the Euregio Meuse-Rhine in English.

ViaEuregio is a mediatheque of various videos on the life on Meuse and Rhine, created from 2012-2016 by BRF (German only).

Radio:

There is a wide range of radio programming available in multiple languages in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine, with a full listing on radiomap.eu (commercial). From e.g. Aachen, your simple radio can provide Flemish, Walloon, German-speaking and Dutch broadcasters. An example is Radio 100,5 (German only), broadcasting across borders with content from all of the Euregio Meuse-Rhine (yet mainly Eupen, Aachen).

Region Aachen
Limburg (NL)
Limburg (B)
East Belgium
Province of Liège
Region Aachen

Local (German)

Hochschulradio Aachen student radio

Radio Antenne AC for Aachen/Städteregion Aachen, Radio Rur for Düren district, Radio Euskirchen district (these three are part of the “Lokalradio NRW”)

Radio 100,5, Eupen broadcaster including Aachen, Zuid Limburg, Frenchspeaking Verviers and Liège

This is a selection of local and partly cross-border broadcasters.

Regional (English):

The Local can offer good hints for your (media-)life in Germany in English, including a regional filter.

Regional (German)

Lokalzeit Aachen provides daily multi-media information for the Region of Aachen (by WDR broadcaster).

Klenkes describes how people in Aachen greet each other – and the name of the free magazine on culture and events in Aachen and the Euregio.

Aachener Nachrichten and Aachener Zeitung, leading print media in the region (reporting on Aachen, Städteregion Aachen, Kreis Euskirchen, Kreis Düren, Kreis Heinsberg).

National (English and many more)

Deutsche Welle shares news on Germany in more than 30 languages. Deutschland.de offers news on living in Germany in “only” 10 languages.

Spiegel Online is a centre-left weekly newspaper, presenting information in English.

Die Zeit is Germany’s largest newspaper for in-depth journalism, with an online section in English.

Limburg (NL)

Local (English)

Student radio Maastricht

RTV Maastricht English news, television

Regional (English and Dutch)

Observant is the independent student newspaper of Maastricht University with publications in Dutch and English.

News in English is a dedicated service from RTV Maastricht broadcasting in English across six social media channels.

Student Radio Maastricht is the only student radio programming in Maastricht – run by students, for students.

De Limburger was selected “best regional newspaper 2017” and offers information in text and podcast format (Dutch only).

National (English)

NetinNederland is a service run by national broadcaster NPO providing an overview on life in the Netherlands in English.

DutchNews.NL translates the articles and content reported on by the national newspapers in the Netherlands.

Limburg (B)

Regional / semi-national (English)

VRT broadcaster provides information in four languages.

Flanders today with information on Flemish-speaking Belgium.

The Brussels Times reports on Belgium mostly.

BBC World Brussels reports on Belgium and the EU-bubble in Brussels.

East Belgium

Regional (German, French)

BRF – Belgischer Rundfunk und Fernsehen is a public service broadcaster who caters for the German speaking community in Belgium.

Grenzecho is the only daily newspaper in Belgium that publishes in German.

Radio 100,5, Eupen broadcaster including, Aachen, Zuid Limburg, Frenchspeaking Verviers and Liège

Vedia (Verviers district, includes the area of the Germanspeaking Community, yet French only)

Province of Liège

Local (French)

48FM Student radio stream (French)

Regional (French)

RTC Télé Liège television

La Meuse (market leader newspaper province of Liège)

Le Soir Liège (leading newspaper for Frenchspeaking Belgium)

Vedia (Verviers district, includes the area of the Germanspeaking Community)

(Semi-)national (French, Dutch, English)

RTBF is the public broadcaster for francophone Belgium. Its Flemish equivalent is VRT and its German speaking equivalent is BRF (yet in French only)

Metro freely distributed Newspaper, in French and/or Dutch

The Brussels Times reports on more than the capital region, mostly on all of Belgium

BBC World Brussels reports on Belgium and the EU-bubble in Brussels