News

There is always something going on in THE HANSA!
Here you will find news from the Union of Cities and its almost 200 Hanseatic member cities.

Pressemitteilung_REES_2025_140_Euregio-Projekt
4.07.2025

Rees und Zutphen: shared history - shared future

Cross-border cooperation between Rees and Zutphen in the Netherlands is in full swing. As part of this cooperation, pupils from Rees and the Het Eligant Lyceum school in Zutphen have now met. In addition to getting to know each other and developing initial project ideas, the Zutphen pupils showed their guests around their town.

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HanseLinks Buchvorstellung in Lübeck (c) Hanselinks-Projekt
3.07.2025

Second volume of "HanseLinks" presented in Lübeck

On 30 June, pupils from Lübeck and Stade presented the second volume of HanseLinks, which was created in collaboration with young people from several European Hanseatic cities. The event took place in the Beichthaus, which is part of the European Hansemuseum and provided an atmospheric setting for the stories from the Hanseatic era.

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DSC_3487 (c) Region Gotland
23.06.2025

New HANSA Presidium and new Guild Chairs elected

As part of the 45th International Hanseatic Day in Visby on June 7, the new Presidium of the Union of Cities THE HANSA was elected. The Assembly of Delegates unanimously elected Christof Bartsch (Brilon), Inger Harlevi (Visby), Vineta Pūce (Valmiera) and Peter Snijders (Zwolle) to the Presidium. An election was also on the agenda at the meeting of the HANSA Guild. 

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Hanse_Stand with Ukraine
16.06.2025

Position of THE HANSA on the Russian War of Aggression

At the Assembly of Delegates on 7 June 2025, it was unanimously decided to withdraw the right to host the International Hanseatic Days 2033 and 2034 from the Russian cities Pskov and Kaliningrad.

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DSC_1902 (c) Region Gotland
14.06.2025

This was the Hanseatic Day in Visby!

For four days, everything revolved around culture, history, music and art from the Hanseatic cities in the medieval old town of Visby. On Thursday evening, the Hanseatic Day traditionally began with a large city parade and was then officially opened by Mayor Meit Fohlin and HANSA President Jan Lindenau. The opening event was rounded off in style with an ABBA cover show.

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