1. Welcome Croeso Cardiff EDC News October 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 at 6:00pm Cardiff EDC, Guest Building Welcome to ERASMUS Students

4. Forthcoming Cardiff EDC Event Thursday 19 November 2009 at 6:00pm Cardiff EDC, Guest Building An evening of European cinema To mark the 20th anniversary of the liberated and reunited Europe, Cardiff EDC and Cardiff School of European Studies (EUROS) are holding an evening of European cinema. Goodbye Lenin (Germany, 2003), a satirical comedy about the reunification of Germany and nostalgia for the old East, will be introduced by Professor Alexis Nuselovici (EUROS). The event is free and everyone is welcome. Refreshments will be provided.

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

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

12. Language Courses available Autumn 2009 Croatian - French – German – Greek – Irish – Italian – Polish – Portuguese – Russian – Spanish – Turkish http://choices1.cf.ac.uk/choices/languages.php

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

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

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

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

17. 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

18. Elections and Referendums in October 2009 in Europe Ireland Referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon 2 October 2009 Greece Parliamentary Election 4 October 2009

19. In the News… Erasmus – the way forward and the Green paper on mobility of young people Conference, Lund, 5-6 October 2009

20. In the News… Wednesday 14 October 2009 Annual EU Enlargement package: the state of play and the way forward

22. Website: http://2010againstpoverty.euhttp://2010againstpoverty.eu Launched 28-29.10.09

23. 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

24. 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%

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

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

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

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

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

32. EU Bookshop Digital Library From 16 October 2009 all EU publications can be downloaded free from the EU Bookshop website

33. Find out what is happening… Give your opinions …

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

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