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To see the latest news of the DG Education & Training. Commissioner of Education & Training Maros Sefcovic; Commissioner Multilingualism Leonard Orban, and president of the EU Council Herman van Rompuy.
To see the news of the other departments of the DG Education & Culture around the following departments: Youth - Culture - Multilingualism - Citizenship - Sport
To see the latest agenda of other central EU organisations: European Council - Education, Youth and Culture Council Meetings; European Parliament Committee of Culture and Education, and its meeting documents;
To see the latest news of other specific EU Centers:
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training

European Capitals of Culture (and the whole list with former Capitals on Wikipedia)
2011 Turku (Finland) and Tallinn (Estonia)
2012 Guimarães (Portugal) and Maribor (Slovenia)
2013 Marseille (France) and Kosice (Slovakia)
2014 Riga (Latvia) and Umea (Sweden)
2015 Mons (Belgium)and Plzen (Czech republic)
2016 Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain) and Wroclaw (Poland)


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