Vienna News
Albertina museum's anniversary
Vienna’s Albertina museum will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its re-opening with a series of special events in 2013. In March there will be an exhibition of Dutch prints from the museum&rsqu...
Dublin News
Dublin's Luas link gets green light
Construction of Dublin’s €370 million cross-city Luas line will begin in May 2013 after it received approval from the cabinet on 27 November and was granted planning permission earlier th...
Dublin News
Plan for Independence Trail in Dublin
Plans for an “Independence Trail” for visitors to Dublin, based on sites associated with the capital's 1916 Rising, have been announced by Irish tourism minister Leo Varadkar.
The minis...
Brussels News
The city of Brussels is to install a contemporary Christmas tree at the Grand-Place this year starting 28 November.
The electronic tree, called Xmas 3, is 24-m high and made of steel. People will b...
Paris News
Foxes are back in the centre of Paris and have been seen at the Jardin du Luxembourg and the Place de la République. However it is estimated that there are many fewer than the urban fox populat...
Barcelona News
Catalonia elections favour small parties
Although Autur Mas, the leader of the centre-right Convergència i Unió (CiU) and incumbent president of the region of Catalonia has won a majority of the 135 seats in the regional parlia...
Barcelona News
Catalonians to vote on more independence
Catalonia goes to the polls on Sunday 25 November in what promises to be an important election not only for the region but also for the whole of Spain.
Artur Mas, leader of the centre-right, Conver...
Madrid News
Spain is facing its second general strike in a year against the government’s austerity measures. In the early hours of 14 December protestors were already arriving in Madrid in response to the c...
Dublin News
Missing art in Dublin's parliament buildings
Ireland's Office of Public Works (OPW) has confirmed that 37 pieces of state-owned artwork are missing or "unaccounted for" from Leinster House, which houses Ireland's parliament buildings on Kildare...
Barcelona News
The Museum of World Cultures will open in Barcelona in June 2014, just opposite the Picasso Museum.
The new museum will house art works from non-European cultures now in the Barcelona ethnological...
Dublin News
Dublin City Council (DCC) is appealing to businesses in the city centre to sign up to a public private partnership scheme that would allow members of the public to use their toilets.
Dublin busines...
Istanbul News
If you have traveled or if you live in Turkey, particularly in Istanbul, you must have noticed the large number of cats and dogs roaming the streets. However, there are no reliable statistics of the n...
Amsterdam News
Dutch recession affects horses
Over 4,500 horses have been put down in the Netherlands in the first six months of 2012 compared with 3,400 in the whole of 2011 according to a report in the daily tabloid NRC.next.
According to th...
Madrid News
Madrid scraps plan for toll roads
A plan to introduce tolls on motorways around Madrid has now been scrapped.
The suggestion was first introduced by the then head of the Madrid government, Esperanza Aguirre, to help with the cost o...
Brussels News
Brussels’ four cemeteries will remain open over the All Saints’ holiday from Monday 29 October to 1 November from 08.30 until 17.00, an hour longer than usual.
There will also be guided...
Barcelona News
New prices for Bicing in Barcelona
Barcelona is planning large increases in 2013 for its Bicing bike-sharing scheme. The cost of an annual subscription will go from €45 to €97.50 but at the same time the city will introduce a...
Oxford News
Pitt Rivers Museum gets lottery grant
The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford has won a £1.05 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to continue its £1.6 million VERVE (Visitors, Engagement, Renewal, Visibility and Enrichment)...
Jersey News
States of Jersey to get new look
All households in Jersey are to receive a copy of suggested reforms to the island’s legislative body, the States of Jersey. All comments on the report must be submitted by 23 November. There wil...
Paris News
Train passengers throughout France can expect delays until Friday 26 October because of strikes in protest against restructuring plans by the state railway SNCF. Travellers have been advised to contac...
Copenhagen News
Post Danmark, Denmark’s national postal system, is planning reductions in its services next year because of the decrease in the volume of written mail.
About 1,500 red letter boxes around the...
London News
London Fire Brigade faces cuts
Plans for the closure of at least 17 of London’s 112 fire stations are contained in a proposal put forward by the mayor of London, Boris Johnson. The project, which has not yet been finalised, i...
Vienna News
Vienna is getting all excited about naked men since a larger-than-life statue of a naked man was unveiled outside the city’s Leopold Museum in early October as part of an exhibition called nude...
Oxford News
Oxford University’s vice chancellor has announced a fund raising target of £3 billion. Part of this – £1.25 billion – has already been raised under the Oxford Thinking ca...
Brussels News
Brussels parking plan postponed
The residents’ parking plan for central Brussels has now been delayed for a few months because of suggestions and queries by residents and traders. Additional meetings have now been scheduled be...
Paris News
United Buddy Bears show in Paris
United Buddy Bears are on show near the Eiffel Tower to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the twinning of Paris and Berlin and the 50th anniversary of the Elysee Treaty which marked the official recon...
Brussels News
Flemish separatists make gains in Belgium local elections
Local elections in Belgium have seen a considerable increase in the vote of the separatist New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) in Dutch-speaking Flanders. It has taken 20 of the 35 districts to become the lar...
Amsterdam News
To add to its already excellent and varied public transport system Amsterdam now has a scooter taxi company, called Hopper, launched at the beginning of October. The price of a single ride is a flat-r...
Barcelona News
Catalonians go to the polls on 25 November to vote for a new regional parliament but the key issue is greater autonomy from the central Spanish government.
The larger than expected independence day...
Brussels News
Brussels gets new parking system
The new parking system, which started at the beginning of October, will gradually be rolled out across the city before the end of 2013.
The idea is to ensure that people can park close to their hom...
Jersey News
Jersey to seek more money for finance industry
Jersey Finance is to ask for £5 million in the budget to spend over the next three years to research and to promote the island’s finance industry abroad.
Jersey Finance, the promotional...
