Severe weather is causing widespread disruption across Europe, from Bordeaux to Moscow.

The wait continues at Charles de Gaulle airport

In France airports at Nimes and Montpellier are closed, while roads across the Pyrenees mountains, linking France and Spain are closed.

Flights in and out of Paris have suffered delays for another day after hundreds of flights at Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports were grounded over the weekend.

There was also disruption in Denmark, after snow led to the closure of Copenhagen's Kastrup airport overnight, stranding 1,000 passengers.

According to the airport's spokesman, about 30 flights were cancelled.

"At this moment we still have delays that can amount to four hours or even more," an airport spokesman said.

Floods

Trains in Sweden and Finland have also suffered heavy delays.

In Moscow three more people froze to death on Sunday evening bringing the number of winter's victims to 230 since last October.

Some 230 people have frozen to death in Moscow

Temperatures in the Russian capital plunged to below minus 24C.

Elsewhere in Europe heavy rains and wind continued to cause trouble.

In Greece there was a threat of rock and mud slides in mountainous areas of the eastern Plaka region.

A number of roads in the region have already become impassable, and at least one mountain village is now under threat.

Flood waters were easing in Germany, after storms last week that left at least six people dead.

However, an alert was still in place in Dresden, which was devastated by floods last August.

And in Spain, the crew of submarine Nautile had to stop working on the wreck of the tanker Prestige because of the high winds.

French fallout

As part of the fallout from the weekend's transport chaos in France, Transport under-secretary Dominique Bussereau was due to meet airport officials late on Monday to discuss how the snowfall was able to paralyse one of Europe's busiest airports.

Transport Minister Gilles de Robien is scheduled to hold talks with highways officials on Tuesday to find ways of keeping drivers better informed about road conditions.

Currently drivers are being warned to avoid using their cars across swathes of southern France.

Flooding in Paris has led to the closure of highways running along both banks of the Seine.

On Sunday about 15,000 car passengers were stuck in their vehicles on the main motorway into Paris from the south, while large sections of black ice were cleared.