Paris News
The Ville de Paris and the new Tramway des Marchaux are taking part in this years edition of Immeubles en fte on 30 May by offering an aperitif to future passengers from 18.00 to 20.30 at three separa...
Berlin News
Neo-Nazi activity continues to make headlines ahead of the football World Cup, which begins in Germany on 9 June. Now Berlin regional assembly politician Giyasettin Sayan, a German of Turkish origin,...
Madrid News
Following protests by local residents 993 parking spaces in the historic districts of Fuencarral-El Pardo, Carabanchel and Hortaleza are to become free of charge. The spaces are currently controlled b...
Barcelona News
Barcelonas new high tech Parc de Recerca Biomdica (PRBB) on the seafront near Port Olimpic is finally a reality. The opening in mid-May was attended by the mayor of Barcelona, Joan Clos, the minister...
Amsterdam News
Amsterdam has the sixth highest incidence of crime in the country after Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Tilburg, Roermond and Den Bosch, according to the annual crime league table published by the newspaper Alg...
London News
Heathrow night flights freeze.
The government has backed down on its proposal to increase the limit on the number of night flights landing at Heathrow following a campaign by residents, local MPs and pressure group Hacan Clearskies...
Oxford News
Oxford city council tenants and leaseholders now have a resource centre in Horspath Road, Cowley. Housing an IT suite, an information library and a conference room, the centre aims to encourage tenant...
Dublin News
The new high-speed luxury train service on the Dublin to Cork line is now operating normally after wildcat strikes by drivers marred the inauguration in mid-May. Travelling at speeds of up to 200 km p...
Vienna News
The catamaran Twin City Liner will make three return trips daily along the Danube between Vienna and Bratislava, Slovakia, starting from 1 June. The vessel travels at around 55 km per hour and can car...
Copenhagen News
Around 85 nurseries and day-care centres in the Danish capital are to be involved in a government programme to mix Danish and immigrant children from an early age. Diversity in Copenhagens Daycare Cen...
London News
Conservatives gain local votes.
On 4 May, 176 English local authorities went to the polls, including all 32 London boroughs and 14 councils on the borders of Greater London. Of the 46 London councils, 24 are now controlled by the Co...
Barcelona News
Catalan government redraws the school map.
The Barcelona city council is to cede land to the Catalan government for the construction of 16 primary schools and 13 secondary schools in the capital. Around 150 million is to be invested in the 200...
Berlin News
The Berlin Free University and the Peking university have co-founded the first school of Confucius studies in Germany. On 27 April, the Chinese ambassador Ma Chanrong, the president of Peking Universi...
Dublin News
Revival for citys oldest theatre.
The Gaiety School of Acting has started a fundraising drive to reopen the historic Smock Alley Theatre in the west end of Temple Bar. Dating back to 1662, the theatre was closed 200 years ago and the...
Vienna News
The 150th anniversary of the birth of Sigmund Freud is being celebrated in Vienna, where the father of psychoanalysis lived and worked for eight decades. A special exhibition entitled The Couch. Think...
Amsterdam News
City swimmers spoilt for choice.
The latest addition to Amsterdams range of city beaches is Strand West open till 30 September, near the Houthavens in the borough of Westerpark which has 20,000 sqm of sand beside the waters of the IJ...
Oxford News
A major project to upgrade Oxford High Street is under way and works should be completed by the beginning of August 2006. The upgrade includes widening the footpaths, which are to repaved with Yorksto...
Paris News
Council properties up for auction.
On 16 May the Ville de Paris is putting several of its residential properties up for public auction. The majority of the apartments are in the 16th arrondissement, with starting prices ranging from 39...
Madrid News
Arts centre for the post office.
Madrids famous Palacio de Comunicaciones on the Plaza de Cibeles is to be renovated, giving 60 percent of its floor space over to museums, a music room, conference halls, information centres and tempo...
Copenhagen News
Copenhagens 500-year-old university is to exchange its historic city centre faculties for three modern campuses in the Danish capital. The cost of the move is estimated at Dkk2.5 billion which will be...
Copenhagen News
One of Copenhagens most popular tourist attractions, the historic Nyhavn canal, with its picturesque old houses and wooden ships and houseboats lining the docks, is about to lose some of its authentic...
Paris News
Preliminary trials of the almost completed Tramway des Marchaux Sud (T3) are being carried out each morning over the 3.2 km stretch of track between Pont du Garigliano and Porte de Vanves until mid-Ma...
Berlin News
The historic Admiralspalast theatre on the Friedrichstrasse in former East Berlin is to reopen this August after nine years with Berthold Brechts classic Threepenny Opera directed by Austrian actor Kl...
Vienna News
A bathing boat (Badeschiff) with a swimming pool and sundeck, moored to the banks of the Danube Canal between Schwedenplatz and Urania, will be open for business from mid-May. The boat, a converted D...
Oxford News
A multi-million pound project to redevelop Oxfords West End area, from St Aldates to the railway station and from the Thames to Hythe Bridge Street, is to be put up for public consultation in July thi...
Madrid News
City council plans to redevelop the boulevards linking the Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen museums with the Cibeles fountain are causing controversy because of their possible impact on the trees in the...
Dublin News
A confidential telephone line giving callers the chance to pass on information about drug-dealing in their area has been launched as a pilot project by the Blanchardstown Local Drugs Task Force in the...
London News
Ten tube stations on the Jubilee, Piccadilly and Northern lines have been refurbished as part of Transport for Londons five-year 10 billion upgrading scheme for the London Underground. The stations no...
Barcelona News
Iberia to launch low-cost airline.
A Spanish rival to EasyJet, Ryanair and Air Berlin is to be launched in October this year. Spanish state airline Iberia will contribute 24 million towards the 50 million start-up capital of the new ai...
Amsterdam News
This years Queens birthday holiday (Koninginnedag) is to be held on 29 April to avoid falling on a Sunday. The holiday instituted by Queen Juliana shortly after the end of world war two is usually cel...
