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Medicines bottles © EUBetter leaflets for prescription medicines
Do you remember everything the doctor said during your short encounter about the medicine prescribed for you? Probably not. You've got questions and the leaflet with the medication doesn't help much.

Suitcase sitting on maps of Europe © ECAn EU without borders - also for long-term visa holders
At the moment an Argentinian working for a French company in Spain can't travel to France for a meeting on his long-term visa. But that will change from 5 April following Parliament's backing of new rules allowing non-EU nationals staying in a member state on a long-stay visa to travel to most other EU countries under the same conditions as the holder of a residence permit.

Features

Solidarity with Haiti
Influenza A(H1N1)
Spanish presidency of the EU
Economic and financial crisis
European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion (2010)
Climate action - energy for a changing world
Lisbon treaty

Videos

European cinema. Made for you.

European cinema. Made for you.

The EU programme MEDIA supports the development and distribution of films as well as training activities, festivals and promotion projects.

Finance your ideas!

Finance your ideas!

The European Research Council (ERC) supports the best and most creative scientists, scholars and engineers from all over the world.

Coping with daily expenses

Coping with daily expenses

Today in the European Union, one person in six lives below the poverty threshold. 2010 is the European year for combating poverty and social exclusion.

Have you ever thought of being an entrepreneur?

Have you ever thought of being an entrepreneur?

Take part in the European Entrepreneurship Video Award 2010 by producing a short video on entrepreneurship.

Taking the green initiative

Taking the green initiative

How to mitigate climate change? Various European initiatives lead the way towards a greener future.

112 - Get help wherever you are in the EU!

112 - Get help wherever you are in the EU!

112 is the European emergency number, reachable from fixed and mobile phones, free of charge, everywhere in the EU.

Erasmus

Erasmus

Facts and personal experiences on this EU flagship education and training programme, enabling more than 180 000 students to study and work abroad each year.