Policy-makers play a key role in tackling the emerging public health problem of antibiotic resistance. Antibiotics are important life-saving drugs used for the treatment of bacterial infections, but these drugs are now threatening to become ineffective because bacteria are developing resistance against them. This is a result of the misuse, and especially the overuse, of antibiotics. The use of antibiotics has to be balanced, meaning that they should be used only when they are needed and justified for therapeutic reasons, and not otherwise.

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.