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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9701

11 July 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/information society
Commission urges member states to implement hotline 116

Brussels, 10/07/2008 (Agence Europe) - Parents and children need to be able to call help quickly and free of charge while travelling in the EU, a question that has come to the fore with the highly mediatised affair concerning the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal last year. In 2007, in the United Kingdom and Belgium alone, over 7500 children were reported missing. In order to meet this urgent need, the European Commission has taken measures by reserving, at national level,...

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