09/09/2013 (Agence Europe) - Leeuwarden, European capital of culture 2018. On Friday 6 September, the experts on the independent selection panel responsible for assessing the Dutch cities competing for the title of the European Capital of Culture in 2018, recommended that Leeuwarden be selected. The other two cities in contention were Eindhoven and Maastricht. Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner responsible for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, stated: “It was not an...