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"Europe is glowing" announcesFrankfurter Rundschau. The front page of the daily features a nighttime satellite photograph showing the spread of illumination over the entire continent, which is only interrupted in Slovenia. In 2007 and 2010, the country of two million inhabitants introduced ground-breaking legislation to curb light pollution. To prevent artificial lighting from reaching the horizon, FR explains that the government in Ljubljana has imposed a ban on light fixtures that illuminate the sky -- in particular sky beamer searchlights which can be visible over long distances. It has also progressively replaced white-light street lamps with lower intensity yellow-light fixtures.
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