Welcome Croeso Cardiff EDC News February 2010

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Cardiff City Hall Tuesday 9 February :00 – 14:30 A free one day fair, exhibition, information sessions and workshops aimed at year olds, featuring music, dance, careers, language tasters and useful information about studying and working abroad. Combating Social Exclusion and Poverty will be the European theme for Pre-booking essential.

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

Education, Culture and Society Research Group 3 February :00 – 13:00 Room 1.79 (Glamorgan Building) Speaker – Professor Alistair Cole (EUROS) Wales in Europe

3 February :30 Law Building, Park Place, Cardiff – Room 0.22 Speaker – Professor William A. Schabas International Criminal Law and the European Court of Human Rights

European Governance, Identity & Public Policy Research Unit 10 February :00 – 18:30 EUROS Building, 65 Park Place, Cardiff – Room 2.18 RoundTable: After Lisbon: New Leadership in Europe? European Council and the Commission Professor Stijn Smismans, CLAWS The European Parliament Eluned Morgan, Honorary Distinguished Professor, EUROS The Franco-German ‘Motor’ Professor Alistair Cole and Professor Kenneth Dyson, EUROS

Wednesday 3 March 2010 at 17:00 Cardiff Law School, Museum Avenue – Room 1.28 Speaker: Professor Carol Harlow (London School of Economics) The EU and the UN: The post-Kadi developments

Language Courses available Spring 2010 Croatian - French – German – Greek – Irish – Italian – Polish – Portuguese – Russian – Spanish – Turkish

In the News… Essen (Germany), Istanbul (Turkey) and Pécs (Hungary) are the European Capitals of Culture 2010

In the News… Spain holds the EU Presidency for the period January–June 2010 Website:

In the News… MEPS hold Hearings to assess the new European Commission Brussels, January 2010 European Parliament votes on the new European Commission, 9 February 2010

European Commission activities in February 2010 … 2 February 2010:Social Situation Report 2009 and Special Eurobarometer: Social Climate Survey 3 February 2010: Application of the Stability and Growth Pact 4 February 2010:Conference on New Skills for New Jobs 9 February 2010: Safer Internet Day - Think before you post! 11 February 2010:112 day – the single European emergency telephone number 24 February 2010:Commission gives favourable Opinion for negotiations to begin for Iceland’s application to join the EU

Elections in February 2010 in Europe Ukraine Presidential (Second Round) 7 February 2010 Greece Presidential (Indirect) (delayed until March 2010)

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112 is the common telephone number to ring in ALL EU Member States to get through to the Emergency Services Day 11 February 2010

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%

Which role shall sport play in Europe? Article 165 of the Treaty of Lisbon gives the EU soft powers on sports policy

Treaty of Lisbon came into force on 1 December 2009

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April 2009 – March 2011 is now freely available to libraries, schools and public bodies in Wales Please ask for details

Welcome to the Youtube space of the European Union

Have your say… Debate Europe website

New look and feel to top level EUROPA pages on the web September 2009-

EU Bookshop Digital Library From October 2009 all EU publications can be downloaded free from the EU Bookshop website

Find out what is happening… Give your opinions …

Welsh Members of the European Parliament Jill Evans Kay Swinburne Derek Vaughan John Bufton