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The number of registrations and seat requests is almost 25% higher than at the same stage last year. The organisers expect to welcome around 5 000 delegates in total and are advising potential participants no to leave it too late to apply. "We expected a surge of registrations when the system opened on 9 July, but they haven't stopped coming in," said a spokesman from the Committee of the Regions' event unit.
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Antonio Tajani, Commission Vice-President in charge of transport said that "This is another important step in the continuous Commission's effort to enhance civil aviation safety, in the interest of all passengers. The Commission will pursue its cooperation and support to States, their civil aviation authorities and their airlines to ensure that the internationally agreed air safety standards are properly implemented."
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Every summer for the last five years, the EU has organised a promotional truck tour to raise awareness of equal rights and combat stereotypes. The huge yellow truck, plastered with the message "respect", is hard to miss - but, with its 1.4m wheelchair lift, easy to access.
The European Commission adopts its fourth report on visa waiver non-reciprocity with third countries
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Vice-President Jacques Barrot, Commissioner responsible for Justice, Freedom and Security underlined the usefulness of the reciprocity mechanism: "This Report clearly demonstrates that the dialogue with third countries under the new visa-reciprocity mechanism has once again proven effective, resulting in visa free travel for all our citizens to another 3 countries. The Report however also proposes retaliatory measures where insufficient progress has been achieved. It is unacceptable that nationals from some third countries can benefit from visa free travel to the EU whilst some of our fellow EU citizens can't travel visa free to those countries. This is at the heart of our visa reciprocity mechanism and I am committed to ensuring that that principle is fully respected ".
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Commission plans ending roaming rip-offs for text messages abroad. The 2.5 billion text messages sent every year by roaming customers in the EU cost over 10 times more than domestic short messages (SMS), show figures released today by the European Commission. The average cost of a roaming text message in the EU between October 2007 and March 2008 was €0.29 according to the European Regulators’ Group (ERG), but can be as high as €0.80 for travellers from Belgium. Calls on the industry for self-regulation and voluntary reductions of roaming prices for text messages have not been answered. The Commission will therefore start working on measures to ensure that consumers benefit from a truly single market for mobile text services. The Commission will also seek to put an end to "bill shocks" that can hit roaming customers using a mobile connection to surf the Internet. New measures could be proposed by the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council in early autumn.
