Launch of Europe Direct in Ballinasloe

On Thursday March 30th, the Mayor of the County of Galway, Councillor Pat Hynes, will officially launch a Europe Direct Relay Point in Ballinasloe Library. The event takes place at 1.30pm.The Europe Direct Relay Point is an Information Point providing a whole range of free publications, brochures and guides relating to the EU. It also provides internet and other ICT access to EU information. It is provided by Galway County Council in cooperation with the European Commission.
Margot Wallström, Vice President of the European Commission, has written that: 'Europe' is everywhere. There are 450 million of us now and we are magnificently diverse. We share a marvellous Europe-wide cultural heritage - from the ancient Greek and Roman world, the Middle-Ages, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment down to the present.'
The Ballinasloe Library through its book stock and other material, and through EU published information, will in its Europe Direct Relay Point, seek to convey a sense of the rich variety of European cultures, languages and ways of life.