Dublin News
New planning zone at Dublin Docklands
22-storey buildings sanctioned in fast-track scheme
Dublin Docklands could become a hive of building activity once more following the state's creation of a 66-hectare special planning zone along t...
Dublin News
Book of Kells to stay at Trinity College
Major rebranding underway at historic Dublin college
Dublin's Trinity College has abandoned plans to move the ninth-century Book of Kells to the basement of a nearby campus building following prot...
Paris News
Paris garbage strike to spread
The protest by rubbish collectors in Paris, which started on 12 May at the Eiffel Tower, is the start of a nation-wide protest by municipal refuse disposal workers.
The General Confederation of Lab...
Berlin News
Berlin controls informal rentals
Berlin is clamping down on the informal holiday rental market encouraged by websites such as Airbnb on the grounds that it having a detrimental effect on hotels and other official forms of tourist acc...
Barcelona News
Barcelona best airport in southern Europe
Barcelona's El Prat airport has been classified as the best airport in southern Europe for the third year running according the Skytrax survey of 13 million passengers in 120 countries. The survey tak...
Dublin News
Dublin builds replica Viking house
Botanic Gardens hosts Viking structure
Construction of a Viking house using traditional building material and methods is nearing completion on the grounds of the National Botanic Gardens in Dublin...
Madrid News
Madrid's new bike sharing scheme, which was due to start on 1 May, has now been delayed, with no new date given for the start up.
The project, which was awarded to Bonopark under a €25 million...
Dublin News
Dublin street artist decorates Brown Thomas
Dublin street artist decorates Brown Thomas
Maser designs window displays at historic Dublin store Ireland's best known street artist has been commissioned to decorate one of the country's most hi...
Dublin News
Airfield farm reopens in Dundrum
Working farm in Dundrum reopens after three-year renovation
Airfield Farm in the affluent south Dublin suburb of Dundrum officially reopened to the public in mid-April following a three-year, &euro...
Berlin News
This festival, which runs from 9-16 April, focuses on new films that have been shot in or around Berlin and Brandenburg.
It screens documentaries, shorts and features before they go on general rel...
Berlin News
Lesbian cemetery opened in Berlin
A space for the burial of lesbians has been reserved in central Berlin graveyard.
Spaces for 80 burials or ashes have been set aside in the Lutheran Georgen Parochial cemetery, which was first laid...
Vienna News
More foreign companies relocate to Vienna
More foreign businesses moved to Vienna in 2013 than in any previous year according to figures released by the city.
133 foreign companies relocated to the city, compared with 110 the previous year...
Paris News
Paris votes in first woman mayor
Socialist Anne Hidalgo became the first woman mayor of Paris in a run-off election against Nathalie Krosciusko-Morizet in the municipal elections across France on Sunday 30 March.
Despite the low t...
Dublin News
Former Anglo Irish Bank HQ becomes Starbucks
Well known Dublin building welcomes US coffee chain
The former headquarters of the failed Anglo Irish Bank on St Stephen’s Green in central Dublin is being turned into a Starbucks coffee outl...
Copenhagen News
Copenhagen zoo culls four lions
Copenhagen Zoo has killed four lions (two old parents and their two cubs) to make way for a new male lion from another city for breeding with two females at the zoo.
The culling of the lions comes...
Dublin News
Restoration of Dublin's O'Connell Tower
Visitors to climb round tower for first time in four decades
Visitors to Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery will be able to climb the giant O’Connell Tower for the first time in more than four...
Paris News
With only a week before the municipal elections in France two women are battling it out to become the next mayor of the capital. The present socialist deputy mayor Anna Hidalgo is standing against Nat...
Vienna News
Vienna offers new 48-hour visitors card
Vienna launches a new 48-hour visitors card on 1 April.
Costing €18.90 it provides free travel on all the city’s public transport, reduced fares from the two airports to the city centre,...
Copenhagen News
Danish women subject to most violence in EU
Over half of Danish women have experienced physical abuse, the highest percentage among the 28 countries of the European Union. This is the finding of a new report released by the European Union Agenc...
Madrid News
Madrid to search for Cervantes
The search for the body of poet, novelist and playwright Miguel de Cervantes could start in March or April now that the Madrid regional government has given its permission.
The project will search...
Barcelona News
Visitors to Montjuïc castle can no longer see the fortress for free but have to pay a €5 entrance fee, as from 1 March.
The castle, which was handed over to the city by the Spanish minist...
Paris News
New low-cost ferry offers from France to UK
New low-cost ferry services are to start between Le Havre and Portsmouth four times a week on 25 March.
The service, to be run by Brittany Ferries, will cost €96 one-way for two passengers plu...
Berlin News
Tourists to Berlin who are accompanied by their dogs will have to pay an added sum on their hotel bills.
From the beginning of 2014 visitors to Berlin are paying a five per cent hotel tax on top of...
Brussels News
Brussels organises a week to mark the international women’s day on 8 March.
The events include debates, workshops and film showings, as well as the films Frozen River about two women w...
Barcelona News
Barcelona Mobile World Congress
Barcelona is hosting the Mobile World Congress for the ninth year running. Considered the largest congress in the mobile phone industry it hosts 1,800 companies and about 77,000 visitors during the fo...
Barcelona News
Barcelona parking spaces too narrow
Barcelona has the narrowest parking places in Europe according to research by EuroTest, a group of 18 automobile clubs in 17 European countries.
Barcelona parking spaces are only 2.2 m wide and 4.5...
Dublin News
Rapid bus scheme proposed for Dublin
Transport system would connect Dublin suburbs to centre Three bus rapid transit routes, costing a total of about €650 million, have been proposed for Dublin by the National Transport Authority (...
Paris News
Air France pilots are threatening a strike from 22-25 February – a school holiday period – in protest against possible transfer of pilots to the low-cost company Transavia.
The pilots&r...
Copenhagen News
The Danish immigration service has announced that it will soon be closing three of its asylum centres in Rødby, Skive and Frederikshavn.
The reason given is that asylum applications are bein...
Brussels News
Central Brussels to get makeover
Brussels has approved a scheme to upgrade historic squares and avenues in the city centre. The main areas of the project are around the Grand-Place, the UNESCO zone and Place Sainte-Catherine and Vism...
