Tue, 24 December 2024
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Amsterdam News

Arts cuts damage Netherlands culture

The decision by the government to cut the Netherlands’ arts council subsidies by 25 per cent over the next four years means that some orchestras, theatre groups and dance companies will no longe...
Copenhagen News

Denmark refuses to legalise marijuana

The Danish justice ministry has turned down a proposal by Copenhagen
Copenhagen News

Denmark refuses to legalise marijuana

The Danish justice ministry has turned down a proposal by Copenhagen’s city council to experiment with the legalisation of marijuana. The city council believes that this is the best way to de...
Berlin News

Brandenburg airport delayed to 2013

With less than a month to go before its inauguration the opening of Berlin’s new Brandenburg airport had been postponed from 3 June until March 2013. Regulators are not satisfied with the partia...
Barcelona News

Tourist figures up

Foreign tourists visiting Catalonia in the first quarter of 2012 grew by 9.9 per cent according to Spain
Brussels News

Brussels organises against homophobia

To mark the international day against homophobia day on 17 May Brussels has organised a conference and demonstration to campaign against homo-, lesbo-, bio- and trans-phobia. The demonstration in Bru...
Paris News

Smoking in Paris cafes

Non-smokers in France have lost another attempt to ban smoking on café terraces. A Paris appeal court has rejected a case by Droits des Non-fumeurs against a lower court ruling that affectively...
Madrid News

Odyssey Marine loses case over Spanish sea salvage

The United States Supreme Court has declined to take an appeal by the salvage company Odyssey Marine Exploration over who has the rights to the ownership of the wreck of the Mercedes, which sank off t...
London News

The Mall closes for Jubilee and Olympics

Parts of The Mall in central London are now closed to traffic in preparation for the four-day celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee from 2-5 June and the Olympic Games that start on 27 July...
Dublin News

Dublin’s Abbey Theatre to relocate temporarily

The auditorium in Dublin’s Abbey Theatre is to close for nine weeks, from 17 July, to allow for the removal of asbestos discovered during a health and safety inspection in January. A producti...
Barcelona News

Catalonia tourist figures up

Foreign tourists visiting Catalonia in the first quarter of 2012 grew by 9.9 per cent according to Spain’s ministry for industry, energy and tourism. The increase was mainly among British and Ge...
Vienna News

Vienna celebrates Gustav Klimt

Vienna has dedicated 2012 to Gustav Klimt, the Austrian Symbolist painter whose 150th anniversary of birth was on 6 February. To celebrate the life and work of the artist who spent most of his life in...
Barcelona News

Barcelona airport wins award

Barcelona has won the award for the best airport in southern Europe for the second year running. The Skytrax World Airport Award is based on surveys from 11 million passengers worldwide, covering opin...
Jersey News

HSBC reorganises in Jersey

HSBC Private Bank Ltd has announced that it is closing its offices in Jersey and amalgamating them with those in Guernsey. HSBC Private Bank Ltd, which is part of HSBC Holdings (formed out of the H...
Brussels News

Expats in Belgium use English as main language

About 250,000 expats live in Belgium, most of them in Brussels, and 97 per cent of them use English as their main language, according to research by the Flemish Free University of Brussels (VUB). T...
Brussels News

Registration for non-Belgians in Brussels elections

Non-Belgians have until 31 July to register to vote in the city elections on 14 October. Voters must be citizens of an EU country or must have been resident in Belgium for five consecutive years an...
London News

Boris Johnson returned as mayor of London

Voters in London have returned Boris Johnson, the Conservative party candidate, as mayor of London but only with a narrow victory over his Labour party rival, Ken Livingstone. Johnson won thanks to...
Copenhagen News

Copenhagen’s Distortion festival faces clean-up costs

Wristbands are on sale to help pay the costs of cleaning up after the free street parties that have made Copenhagen
Paris News

Leaning towers for Paris

Plans have been approved for two leaning skyscrapers in Paris, one 175 m and the other 115 m high. Designed by architect Jean Nouvel they are to be located in the 13th arrondissement in the new hig...
Amsterdam News

Dutch fees for non-EU residency too high

The European Court of Justice has ruled that the Netherlands charges non-EU residents too much for residency permits. The fee is between
Copenhagen News

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Madrid News

Take the Metro arrests in Madrid

Three people protesting rises in the fares of Madrid metro price have been arrested and face fines from
London News

Boris Johnson moves ahead in polls for London mayor

With the election for mayor of London on 3 May Boris Johnson, the Conservative Party candidate, is now moving ahead of his traditional rival, Labour Party candidate Ken Livingstone. The race is still...
Jersey News

Survival art marks Jersey Liberation

Art and artefacts made by inhabitants of Jersey who were deported to German internment camps during world war two are on show at the Jersey Museum to mark this year
Dublin News

1916 heritage quarter for Dublin?

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Berlin News

Berlin’s taxi drivers protest new airport tax

Taxi drivers in Berlin are protesting over a tax increase on fares to Berlin
Barcelona News

Barcelona readies for bankers’ meeting

Spain has restored border checks on people entering from Schengen area countries at airports in the northeast and along the border with France in an attempt to discourage protesters targeting the Euro...

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