Amsterdam News
Rijksmuseum to reopen April 2013
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, which has been under restoration for most of the last decade, will reopen to the public on 14 April 2013. During renovations and alterations only the Philips wing of the...
Barcelona News
Catalonia to pay immigrants’ health costs
The Catalonian government has said that it will pay primary healthcare costs for immigrants for up to a year even though they do not have all the required residency papers. However they must have been...
Brussels News
16 September marks the traditional annual car-free Sunday in Brussels at the start of European mobility week, which this year is from 16-22 September.
Numerous events take place on the first...
London News
London Metropolitan University loses licence for foreign students
About 2,500 non-EU students at London Metropolitan University must now find a new institution of higher education to sponsor them for study visas or face having to return home in the next two months....
Copenhagen News
Copenhagen police will no longer patrol the streets on horseback from 1 December. The small but popular force, which is made up of nine horses and 12 police, is being slashed because of the need for b...
Madrid News
Spain's illegal immigrants to pay for health
Immigrants in Spain without legal documents will have to pay for health care from Saturday 1 September. This includes both cancer and HIV treatment.
Illegal immigrants who have managed to acquire a...
Brussels News
The annual Brussels beer festival returns to the capital from 31 August to 2 September. Large, medium and the small specialist brewers will be bidding for custom in the centre of the city during the t...
Oxford News
Oxford gets biomedical funding
Oxford University has been granted £750,000 in funding by the government for biomedical research.
The money is to be spent on research into flu vaccines and techniques to monitor the interact...
Berlin News
Berlin to mark Nefertite centenary
A special exhibition to celebrate the centenary of the discovery of the bust of Nefertite opens at Berlin’s Neues Museum in early December.
“In the light of Amarna, 100 years of the fin...
Amsterdam News
Schipol airport was on alert on 29 August because of the suspected highjacking of a Vueling plane with 180 passengers enroute from Malaga in Spain.
The plane was escorted by F16 fighters to Schipol...
Vienna News
Nokia, the Finnish telecommunications company, has announced that it is moving its central European headquarters from Vienna to Budapest.
At present the Vienna office controls operations in Switzer...
Paris News
The Eiffel Tower worth more than the Colosseum
The Eiffel Tower is Europe’s most valuable historic monument according to a survey by the chamber of commerce of Monza and Brianza in north Italy.
The Italian organisation has calculated that...
Jersey News
The Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey have estimated that they need to spend over £120 million in flood defences
Guernsey has calculated that it should spend £55 million to protect...
Brussels News
Fewer expats to vote in Belgium’s local elections
According to figures released by the ministry of home affairs 18.4 per cent of expats from EU countries living in Belgium have registered to vote in the provincial and municipal elections on 14 Octobe...
Dublin News
Aer Lingus clarifies new baggage rules
Ireland's national air carrier Aer Lingus has clarified its newly-introduced baggage regulations after it prohibited passengers from carrying more than one bag on all flights from 20 August.
Aer Li...
London News
Paralympics cauldron lit in London
A celebration cauldron was lit in front of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square on 24 August to mark London’s start to the Paralympic Games that open on 29 August.
Four flames ignited in...
Amsterdam News
Fewer school dropouts in the Netherlands
The number of children leaving school without any qualifications has dropped by 50 per cent in ten years in the Netherlands.
School dropouts have gone from 71,000 ten years ago to 38,600 today and...
Copenhagen News
Copenhagen hopes that only four per cent of its inhabitants will be smokers in 2025 instead of the 21 per cent who smoke at present.
The city is planning free courses to encourage people to stop sm...
Barcelona News
Catalonia registers healthy increase in tourism
The number of foreign tourists visiting Catalonia from January to July this year showed an 8.9 per cent increase over the same period in 2011. This compares with an increase throughout the country of...
Dublin News
The Tall Ships Race arrives in Dublin on 23 August and motorists have been advised to avoid the city centre for the duration of the four day-celebration. The event is expected to entice up to a millio...
Berlin News
Berlin’s Brandenburg airport opening still not confirmed
Confirmation of 17 March 2013 as the opening for Berlin’s new Brandenburg airport will only be confirmed mid September, according to a press release from the airport’s supervisory board....
Madrid News
Madrid Mercedes-Benz fashion week
Mercedes-Benz 2013 spring/summer fashion week opens in Madrid on 30 August with showings by top international and Spanish names, such as Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, Roberto Verino, Devota & Lomba, Do...
London News
London airports coping with post-Olympic rush
As thousands of Olympic athletes leave London for the journey home Heathrow airport has set up a special terminal to deal with check-in and baggage requirements. Over 10,000 athletes and Olympic offic...
Paris News
Easyjet threatens French strike
EasyJet's French-based pilots are threatening to strike on 15, 17 and 19 August, the height of the mid-summer holiday season. The industrial action is over pay and bonuses and will affect about 250 st...
Amsterdam News
Amsterdam’s Grachtenfestival celebrates 15 years
Amsterdam’s Grachtenfestival of classical music is in full swing throughout the city. The main concert takes place on 18 August close to the Pulitzer Hotel, with floats on the Prinsengracht cana...
Brussels News
Brussels fights invasive plants
Brussels’ Green Spaces Unit is campaigning to eradicate invasive plants such as black cherry, Japanese knotweed and giant hogweed from the city.
The Brussels unit, which looks after the green...
Vienna News
Vienna extends resident parking zones
Residents’ parking is to be extended in Vienna to the 12th (Meidling), 14th (Penzing), 15th (Rudolfsheim and Fünfhaus), 16th and 17th (Hernals) districts in October.
Residents in the 14t...
Vienna News
Fashion week in Vienna runs from 12-16 September. About 80 designers take part in the event which is located in the city’s Museumquartier. The fashion week is now in its fourth year and was drew...
Madrid News
International Airlines Group (IAG), the holding company created out of the merger of Iberia and British Airways, is expected to announce redundancies at Iberia after the company clocked up a €263...
Jersey News
Design for Jersey's new bus service
People living in the island of Jersey are being asked to choose which design they prefer to decorate the buses of the company that will start running the island-wide public transport service next year...
