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WelcomeCroeso

Cardiff EDC NewsSeptember 2009

helping you find out about the European Union and the countries of Europe

promoting debate about the EU and European issues

encouraging you to ask questions, give your opinions and make suggestions to the EU

Forthcoming Cardiff EDC Event

Wednesday 11 November 2009

Welcome to ERASMUS Students

In the News…Cardiff has been chosen to represent the UK as a European City of Sport for 2009. During its term Cardiff will be the primary city to host the UK School Games, 3-6 September 2009

September 2009European Heritage Days in Wales

Bringing citizens together to enjoy heritage and bridge differences in culture and language

PentreffestAutumn weekend, Rudry, 16-18 October 2009A weekend of fabulous European music and dance

http://www.pentreffest.org.uk

In the News…European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE)

Workshop

Cardiff, 16-23 November 2009

Wales Arts International has joined ten other cultural organisations from six EU countries

in the Practics project, with the aim to facilitate the provision of information about EU

cross-border mobility in the cultural sector

Official launch: November 2009

Forthcoming talks, lectures and seminars on European themes in Cardiff

All welcome

Language Courses available Autumn 2009

Croatian - French – German – Greek – Irish – Italian – Polish – Portuguese – Russian – Spanish – Turkish

Further information:

http://choices.cf.ac.uk/choices/languages.php

In the News…Vilnius (Lithuania) and Linz (Austria)

European Capitals of Culture 2009

Vilnius http://www.culturelive.lt/en/main/

Linz http://www.linz09.at/en/index.html

In the News…

Sweden holds the EU Presidency for the period July-December 2009

In the News…

26 September 2009

European Day of Languages

16-22 September 2009European Mobility Week

European cities and towns have the opportunity to participate in EMW to promote

sustainable mobility. The theme for 2009 is ‘Improving City Climates’

In the News…September – October 2009

European Jobs Days

Hundreds of towns and cities around Europe will stage simultaneous job fairs and other events

to promote job mobility

Elections in September 2009 in Europe

NorwayParliamentary, 14 September 2009

GermanyParliamentary, 27 September 2009

PortugalParliamentary, 27 September 2009

112 is the common telephone number to ring in ALL EU Member States

to get through to the Emergency Services

http://ec.europa.eu/112

In the News…EU Roaming Regulation

Entered into force on 1 July 2009

Cuts roaming costs for SMS, calls and data downloads up to 60%

Looking for information on these subjects

or anything else connected with Europe?

Please ask EDC staff

or use

http://www.europeansources.info

April 2009 – March 2010

is now freely available to libraries, schools and public bodies in Wales

Please ask for details

http://www.europeansources.info

Welcome to the Youtube space of the European Union

http://uk.youtube.com/EUtube

Have your say…

Debate Europe websitehttp://europa.eu/debateeurope/index_en.htm

Elections to the European Parliament June 2009

The results…

Welsh Members of the European Parliament 2009-2014

• Jill Evans

• Kay Swinburne

• Derek Vaughan

• John Bufton