Bacteria that cause common and life-threatening infections are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. This is largely due to the widespread overuse and misuse of antibiotics in humans and animals, and in other sectors. This urgent problem is threatening the health of the people in Europe and worldwide. The pharmaceutical industry can and should play a key role in tackling antibiotic resistance.

Joint IRU - FADEEAC Conference on Road Safety & Professional Training held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as a concrete contribution to the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety, concludes that focusing on the human element through professional training is the key to effectively improving road safety in Latin America.

The Centre for European Studies (CES) has published a new paper, entitled Old Ghosts in New Sheets: European populist parties and foreign policy. The paper, authored by Angelos Chryssogelos, formerly a Research Fellow at CES, shows that although populist parties are on the rise, their ideology and political positions are often not well understood. Chryssogelos' paper focuses on the foreign policy positions of five radical populist parties on the right and left in Western Europe. It covers these parties' views of the United States, Russia, the Middle East and global governance.

On Monday the 4th of April, during a stop over in Istanbul, the President of the Assembly of European Regions and Turkish regions agreed on the opening of an AER satellite office in the Bosphorus

While the slow opening of thematic chapters continues to delay the entry of Turkey into the European Union, the Assembly of European Regions (AER) proposed opening a branch in Istanbul, Turkey, following a meeting of the President of the Assembly of European Regions Michèle Sabban and key representatives of the Provincial Council in Istanbul.