TELECOMMUNICATIONS : 112 EMERGENCY NUMBER STILL NOT WELL KNOWN.

The new Digital Agenda Commissioner, Neelie Kroes, made her first official comments on her new policy area at the second European 112 Day (for the EU emergency number 112), on 11 February. The number, which supplements national numbers, is not well known by Europeans.

A recent Eurobarometer survey shows that only one fourth of Europeans polled were able to spontaneously identify 112 as the emergency number that can be used throughout the EU. This is only one percentage point better than a 2009 poll.

The European Commission notes, however, that in some countries the number of inhabitants familiar with 112 has risen sharply compared with last year. This is the case in Belgium, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Lithuania and Hungary. In the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia and Finland, more than half the population is familiar with 112. In Italy, Greece and the United Kingdom, fewer than 10% of...

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