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...
Dublin News
Dublin’s Blackrock baths demolished
The historic Blackrock baths in south Co. Dublin have been demolished because they are too dangerous according to local council authorities, who blamed extensive weather damage and “the ravages...
Brussels News
Brussels marathon begins at 09.00 on Sunday 7 October. The start is at the Parc du Cinquantenaire with the finish at Grand Place in the centre of the city. There will also be a half marathon, a mini m...
Madrid News
Architecture week in Madrid from 1-7 Oct offers the chance to see some of Madrid’s most distinctive buildings, as well as some that are not usually open to the public.
Throughout the week arc...
Jersey News
Fibre optic broadband, which will bring faster internet connections throughout Jersey, has already been rolled out to 20,000 households in the island. But so far only 1,000 customers have signed up fo...
Copenhagen News
Mercedes replaces Ford for Danish police cars
Danish police are to replace their present Ford cars with Mercedes and Volkswagens from April 2013.
Although the cars are more expensive to buy, they consume less petrol, have less environmental im...
Oxford News
Oxford has launched a new guide system for visitors called Oxford Expore. Signs, maps and smart phone linkups provide pedestrians not only with directions but also information and images about the var...
Paris News
Louvre opens new Islamic courtyard
A new section dedicated to Muslim art has opened in one of the courtyards of the Louvre. The new structure, following in the off-beat tradition of the Louvre pyramid, covers about 1,000 sqm and houses...
Amsterdam News
The Van Gogh museum closes for restoration
The Van Gogh will be closed from 24 September 2012 to 25 April 2013 for renovations.
During that period about 75 of the 200 works will be on display at the Hermitage, Amsterdam, Amstel 51, in an ex...
Amsterdam News
Amsterdam’s Stedelijk reopens to the public
Amsterdam’s Stedelijk museum was officially re-opened by Queen Beatrix on 22 September and opened to the public again after ten years on 23 September.
The new part of the building includes a...
Brussels News
As usual in the autumn museums in Brussels open late on Thursday evenings from 20 September until 13 December. Each week about six museums of the 55 participating offer guided tours on Thursdays from...
Vienna News
A new luxury hotel, but along the lines of a guesthouse, will make its debut in Vienna in autumn 2013. The concept behind it is to make clients feel as though they are at home or in their own apartmen...
London News
Primark opens new branch in central London
Budget clothing store Primark has opened a new branch at the Tottenham Court Road end of Oxford Street in London. The new four-storey store is at the upper end of Primark’s discount market.
T...
Dublin News
Dublin celebrates the seventh edition of Culture Night with free entertainment across the capital on Friday 21 September, from 17.00 until midnight.
In addition to Dublin's museums, galleries, thea...
Jersey News
The green lettuce seaweed that invaded the beaches on the south coast of the island all summer may in future be taken out to sea on a special barge.
During several weeks in the summer lorries were...
Madrid News
Europe’s biggest gambling complex will be built outside Madrid over the next decade. Gambling magnate Sheldon Adelson of Las Vegas Sands, who has chosen Madrid rather than Barcelona, h...
Paris News
Pedestrian banks along the Seine
Plans put forward by the Socialist mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, to pedestrianise the banks of the Seine are not popular among motorists. Two associations – 40millions d’automobil...
Amsterdam News
After the victory of the centre-right VVD party led by Mark Rutte in the parliamentary election on 12 September he is now faced with the problem of forming a new government.
The VVD won 41 seats (u...
Amsterdam News
The Netherlands elects a new parliament on 12 September after the fall of the minority government last April over an austerity budget.
Polls indicate that the race will be close, between the centre...
Barcelona News
Catalonia rallies for independence from Spain
Over 1.5 million people took part in Catalonia’s national day march on 11 September in Barcelona. It was the largest demonstration that the city had ever seen and the route had to be changed bec...
Berlin News
Berlin’s Willy Brandt airport to open 27 October 2013
Berlin’s new airport will open on 27 October 2013, the beginning of the winter schedules for 2013/2014. It had previously been scheduled for June 2012.
The new chief executive of the airport...
Berlin News
Brandenburg airport delayed again
The opening date for Berlin’s new Brandenburg airport has been put off once again, this time until October 2013, rather than March 2013.
The airport, to be called after the former German chan...
Brussels News
Graphic and textile design is the focus of this year’s design festival (6-30 Sept) in Brussels.
Interior, industrial, urban, packaging and retail design are all elements of the festival, whic...
Barcelona News
Fewer thefts on Barcelona metro
Thefts dropped by 19 per cent between July 2011 and July 2012 on the Barcelona metro. The decrease is thought to be because of extra police patrols at station intersections, on platforms and directly...
Copenhagen News
Copenhagen International School gets Møller Mærsk donation
A donation of DKK200 million from the Møller Foundation means that Copenhagen’s International School (CIS) now has to raise only another DKK 100 million (about €150,000) before const...
Berlin News
Lufthansa cabin crew strike again
A Lufthansa cabin crew strike is to affect flights through Berlin on Tuesday 4 September. Many medium and short-haul flights will be cancelled. The strike, which started in Berlin at 05.00 will last f...
Jersey News
Jersey Telecom has replaced its 1970s GEC System X, which has operated landlines in the island since the 1980s, with a new digital Next Generation Network (NGN).
The new system, supplied by the Chi...
