Berlin News
Berlin’s 40th marathon lines up
Berlin Marathon, which is reputed to be one of the fastest in the world, takes place on 29 September this year with about 40,000 runners from 120 countries, helped along by 5,000 volunteers.
It is...
Brussels News
The Brussels regional government plans to build 6,000 new housing units by 2020 to cope with its growing population. The city estimates that it has about 14,000 new residents every year.
New housin...
Copenhagen News
Denmark to get high-speed trains
Denmark’s railway network will be getting a high-speed upgrade thanks to agreement over a 28.5 billion kroner investment between the government and opposition parties.
Danish railways should...
Barcelona News
Barcelona is promoting various forms of alternative transport during Mobility Week from 22-29 September. These include car sharing, cultural tours by bike, a photo competition and the Barcelona City C...
London News
Boris bus crashes in central London
One of the new-design London double-decker buses crashed in Chelsea a day after it came into service on the central London route 11 on 22 September. Three people were seriously hurt, including the dri...
Dublin News
Radical draft plans for Dublin traffic
A draft report by the National Transport Authority (NTA) has concluded that much of the traffic currently passing through Dublin city centre should be directed elsewhere.
However, while elements of...
Paris News
France issues new driving licences
France is now issuing new driving licences in line with the standard EU plastic cards to replace the old and less secure paper model.
All applications for driving licences from 16 September will ha...
Dublin News
The eighth edition of Culture Night takes place on Friday 20 September in towns and cities across Ireland, with nearly 200 venues in Dublin joining in and staying open late.
The capital's Cul...
Berlin News
Berlin wins rights to Knut the Polar Bear
The Berlin Zoo has won its battle to keep the rights to the name Knut, the popular polar bear it bred in captivity until it unexpectedly died in 2011.
The name generates a large income for the Berl...
Madrid News
Madrid mayor rules out another Olympic bid
After the disappointment of losing the Olympic Games for the third time the mayor of Madrid has advised against a fourth bid. Ana Botella, who has been mayor since 2011, has said that she thinks Madri...
Copenhagen News
Copenhagen needs more bicycle racks
Copenhagen’s traffic congestion commission is recommending 30,000 more bicycle parking spots in the city. The cost for the new racks would be about 300 million kroner.
The commission estimate...
Amsterdam News
Van Gogh’s Sunset at Montmajour unveiled in Amsterdam
The newly discovered work by Van Gogh unveiled in Amsterdam on 9 September will be on view at the Van Gogh Museum from 24 September.
It is the first discovery of an unknown work by the Dutch artist...
Dublin News
Dublin’s Victorian fruit market to be redeveloped
The Victorian fruit and vegetable market between Capel Street and the Four Courts in Dublin’s north inner city will be redeveloped next year as a “continental-style” food emporium....
Brussels News
Twenty new bicycle racks have been installed in Brussels as the result of a survey in July asking the public to suggest new locations. An additional 20 sites are being studied. Almost all the racks ar...
Vienna News
Vienna's new university campus
Vienna's University of Economics and Business (Wirtschafts Universität Wein or WU) will officially open in its new campus on 4 October.
The new site, known as Campus WU, is in the Prater distr...
Vienna News
Wiener Linien, Vienna's public transport authority, is expanding its services in the autumn. Buses and underground trains will run more frequently during weekdays in off-peak hours. The new frequencie...
Oxford News
Oxford Open Doors weekend, organised by the Oxford Preservation Trust takes place on the weekend 14-15 September. The public will be able to visit locations that are not usually open to visitors such...
Barcelona News
Barcelona rolls out parking apps
Barcelona has launched a new parking app apparkB to make parking easier and more user friendly in the city's blue and green areas.
The app means that users can pay online and pay only for the exact...
Madrid News
Madrid countdown to Olympics announcement
Spain's capital will hear on 7 September whether or not it has been successful in its third attempt to host the Olympic Games.
It is competing against Istanbul and Tokyo for the 2020 Games and hope...
Dublin News
Dublin bridge named after Rosie Hackett
Dublin city council has voted to call the new bridge over the river Liffey at Marlborough Street after Rosie Hackett, a Dublin trade unionist who co-founded the Irish Women Workers’ Union...
Copenhagen News
Denmark's first mosque with a minaret and dome is nearing completion in Copenhagen on the corner of Rovsingsgade and Vingelodden in outer Nørrebro.
The Sunni mosque also has classrooms, a re...
Barcelona News
Barcelona to remodernise central fish market
Barcelona and its fish wholesalers have come to an agreement to renovate the city's seafood market. The project will bring the Mercat Central del Peix in line with Spanish and EU health and enviro...
Paris News
Fewer deaths on French motorways
Deaths on French motorways in 2012 fell by more than 25 per cent according to a report by the Association des Sociétés Françaises d’Autoroutes (ASFA), accounting for 143 of...
Copenhagen News
Denmark demolishes dangerous Nazi bunkers
Demolition starts on 120 Nazi world war two bunkers along the west coast of Denmark at the end of July. The first one scheduled for destruction is on Langerhuse beach near Harboore.
The German-buil...
Brussels News
Prime locations in central Brussels – Place Royale, Place des Palais, Parc de Bruxelles and Mont des Arts – become the venues for the city’s multi-cultural summer festival from 9-18...
London News
Visitors to Trafalgar Square this summer will be able to gaze at a large blue cock by German artist Katharina Fritsch on the controversial fourth plinth.
Fritsch has claimed that the gigantic blue...
Dublin News
Charity shops to open on Grafton Street
Charity shops will now be allowed to open on Dublin's main shopping thouroughfare Grafton St, following a decision taken by Dublin city council. Councillors had been asked to consider the introduction...
Dublin News
New bylaws sought for Dalkey Island
The local council responsabile for Dalkey Island in Dublin Bay is seeking to introduce new bylaws to help preserve the island's heritage and ecology.
The uninhabited 9-hectare island is situated on...
Dublin News
Holles St maternity hospital to move
The National Maternity Hospital at Holles Street in south central Dublin is to be relocated a few km further south to the St Vincent’s Hospital campus at Elm Park in the Ballsbridge area.
C...
Brussels News
Brussels may get 4G mobile telephone coverage by the end of 2013 according to plans announced by b.lite, a relative newcomer in the telecommunications field.
B.lite, which has recently invested in...
