Barcelona's mix of affordable cost of living and quality of life has helped create a vibrant startup community — and become a hotbed for the creation of surveillance technologies.

Barcelona have secured their passage into the last 16 of the Champions League with six wins and one defeat to date. Liverpool, who beat Lille 2-1, top the league stage from Barca in second, and are the only other side to be assured to skip the playoff round at this stage.

Spain is planning a raft of measures to address its brewing housing crisis, including an up to 100% tax on properties bought by people who are neither citizens nor residents of the European Union.

Major cities — Athens, Kraków, and Barcelona were those selected by the ECA — are failing to tackle noise and air pollution. The authors attribute this to the lengthy infringement processes of the European Commission, city authorities’ misuse of funds EU, and local resistance to measures such as low-emission zones and green spaces.

A new report from the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has concluded that air pollution in the EU continues to be a danger to health and that, despite recent improvements, member states might fail to meet future targets unless ‘existing and additional’ measures are effectively implemented.

Public anger is growing as locals are being priced out of home ownership with rents being driven up by gentrification and landlords shifting to more lucrative, short-term tourist rentals, especially in urban and coastal areas.

Carnival Cruise Line passengers traveling from Dover, Barcelona, and Rome must secure new electronic visas, with fees.

Air and noise pollution are among the most pressing environmental and health challenges faced throughout the EU, particularly in urban areas. More than 300 million people in the EU are estimated to be exposed to harmful pollutants in the air and around 90 million people to harmful noise levels.

At the end of 2024, Grupo Rosales Inmobiliario sold the Hotel Vincci Bit in Barcelona to a Spanish investment group for €60 million. The 4-star Vincci Bit with 177 double rooms opened in 2012 and has a built surface area of almost 10,000 m², distributed over 9 floors above ground and 3 undergroun...

Against the odds, Prince Harry has won a landmark victory Manchester City in eye-watering bid for Barcelona star Raphinha: report UK Trump impersonator says he will hang up his wig after four more years of work

Gazzetta and Tuttosport report Barcelona are pushing to get the Englishman ... one of them this month having just one slot for non-EU players available.

Study highlights use of techniques such as long-read genome sequencing, optical genome mapping, and RNA sequencing for rare disease diagnosis.