1. Welcome Croeso Cardiff EDC News September 2009

2. 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

3. Forthcoming Cardiff EDC Event Wednesday 11 November 2009 Welcome to ERASMUS Students

4. 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

5. September 2009 European Heritage Days in Wales Bringing citizens together to enjoy heritage and bridge differences in culture and language

6. Pentreffest Autumn weekend, Rudry, 16-18 October 2009 A weekend of fabulous European music and dance http://www.pentreffest.org.uk

7. In the News… European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE) Workshop Cardiff, 16-23 November 2009

8. 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

9. Forthcoming talks, lectures and seminars on European themes in Cardiff All welcome

11. 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

12. In the News… Vilnius (Lithuania) and Linz (Austria) European Capitals of Culture 2009

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

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

15. In the News… Sweden holds the EU Presidency for the period July-December 2009

16. In the News… 26 September 2009 European Day of Languages

18. 16-22 September 2009 European 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’

19. 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

20. Elections in September 2009 in Europe Norway Parliamentary, 14 September 2009 Germany Parliamentary, 27 September 2009 Portugal Parliamentary, 27 September 2009

21. 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

22. 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%

23. Looking for information on these subjects or anything else connected with Europe? Please ask EDC staff or use http://www.europeansources.info

25. April 2009 – March 2010 is now freely available to libraries, schools and public bodies in Wales Please ask for details http://www.europeansources.info

27. Welcome to the Youtube space of the European Union http://uk.youtube.com/EUtube

28. Have your say… Debate Europe website http://europa.eu/debateeurope/index_en.htm

29. Elections to the European Parliament June 2009 The results…

30. Welsh Members of the European Parliament 2009-2014 Jill Evans Kay Swinburne Derek Vaughan John Bufton