Berlin News
Berlin film festivals screens The Ghost Writer
Berlin is to screen the premier of controversial director Roman Polanski
Dublin News
Dublin's newest bridge opened to traffic just before Christmas. Named in honour of Samuel Beckett, one of the capital's most famous sons, and designed by internationally renowned architect Santiago Ca...
Barcelona News
Barcelona city council has announced moves that it hopes will boost the take-up of electric powered vehicles in the city. Under a joint agreement with utility company Endesa, the council is to install...
Madrid News
Public transport prices in Madrid are to rise by up to 21.7 per cent in 2010 despite the widespread expectation that the
Jersey News
Jersey tax increases thrown out
Ministerial plans for duty increases were defeated recently in a surprise rebellion in the island
Jersey News
Islanders are throwing away up to a staggering 20,000 tons of food every year, according to the Consumer Council.
The amount equates to 1lb of food per person per week.
The mountain of wasted food...
Jersey News
A complete new set of Jersey banknotes will enter general circulation in February, the treasury minister has revealed.
Senator Philip Ozouf has also announced that next year will see the introductio...
Copenhagen News
Copenhagen names new metro stations
Copenhagen has officially named the last six stations of the city
Berlin News
Almost 20 per cent of Berlin residents were claiming state benefits at the end of 2007. The latest figures released by Destatis, the government statistics office show that Berlin was well above the Ge...
Amsterdam News
Dutch News online reports that Amsterdam city council has been ordered to cull wild deer living in the national park dune area between the resort towns of Zandvoort and Noordwijk to the west of the ci...
Amsterdam News
Schipol to get computerised body scanners
According to the Telegraaf newspaper, automated total body scanners will shortly replace human searches at Schipol airport completely. The controversial x-ray scanners, which can see through a perso...
Vienna News
More than 10,000 people have been stopped and questioned by the Vienna police force during its special patrols on the city
Dublin News
Dublin's biggest department stores, Arnotts, Clerys and Brown Thomas, are breaking with tradition this year and will open their doors on Boxing Day. In doing so they hope to attract bargain-hunting sh...
Amsterdam News
Amsterdam uses Cisco’s Urban EcoMap
Amsterdam has gone head to head with the American city of San Francisco to see which is the more eco friendly. In conjunction with technology company Cisco, Amsterdam has launched Urban EcoMap, which...
Barcelona News
Barcelona has seen the latest step forward in its quest to position itself as an upmarket tourist destination with the opening of a hotel from the high-end Mandarin Oriental hotel group in the city....
Brussels News
Brussels public transport company STIB has found itself in a tight spot after it was told by the Brussels police at the start of its anti-fare evasion campaign that it cannot demand the identity of pe...
Brussels News
The renovation of one of Brussels' most important Art Nouveau buildings has finally been completed after five years of work. The privately owned Ciamberlani building is considered a masterpiece of Bel...
Copenhagen News
Copenhagen University cuts jobs
Copenhagen University is to lose over 100 staff in 2010 as part of a cost-cutting exercise to save 90 million kroner, says the Copenhagen Post. It is thought that 130 staff will lose their jobs in Jan...
