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European CommissionCouncil of Europe

Here you can find links to the issues related to Alcohol policy in Europe

An EU strategy to support Member States in reducing alcohol related harm in 19 different languages

European Comissions Report on Alcohol Use in Europe
Institute of alcohol studies and the last issue of their magazine Alcohol Alert. Istitute of Alcohol is an independent organisation with the broad aim of increasing awareness about alcohol related issues in society.

Eurocare was formed in 1990 as an alliance of voluntary and non-governmental organisations representing a diversity of views and cultural attitudes and concerned with the impact of the European Union on alcohol policy in Member States.

An interesting material/family guide on prevention of underage drinking "Start talking before they start drinking"

Updated news about alcohol issues:

http://www.alkoholpolitik.ch

http://www.drugnews.nu


8/30/2010 - Active's new address
Active office has moved and changed address.
8/27/2010 - Shout out loud:...
...We need a world free from drugs! Active – sobriety, friendship and peace is today celebrating its 20th anniversary. In the last 20 years the youth temperence movement in Europe has been steadily growing and getting stronger. Being proud on the work we did the last 20 years, we look at the situation of young people in Europe today and we are angry.
8/27/2010 - Euroean youth has to join forces to help developing countries
We have different backgrounds, our countries have different histories and when we join we can learn from each other. In this way we can avoid making the same mistakes more than once. There are many countries that are a lot less developed than the European ones. When European youth join forces, we should be able to help developing countries.
8/27/2010 - NGO statement from World Youth Conference
208 youth people from 153 countries representing youth of the world have made a statement that you can read here.
8/24/2010 - Moving of the office still in the process
The summer is almost over, our volunteers Janika, Alari and Sanja have left the office and are up to new challenges in their lives. The new volunteers: Tadas, Eliina and Alyona are coming in the middle of September 2010 but before that, Active office has to be completely moved to Stockholm. We are moving these days, the furnitures are at both places, the Secretary General as well and that is why it takes us a bit longer time to answer emails. We apologize for that and wish us good luck with moving so everything is back to normal state and speed.
8/11/2010 - Active has a new board
Active Congress 2010 has elected new Active board for the period 2010 - 2012
8/10/2010 - Call for political officer
Active wants to open a position of political officer working part time.
7/28/2010 - About Active on slides
What is Active about? We have summed it up and put on slides. Check it out and if you want it in ppt, contact the office.
7/27/2010 - The nomination committee is done
Are you curious who is nominated for the next Active board? It is public now. The nomination committee is done with their part of job and we have the suggestion for the Active board 2010-2012.
7/26/2010 - Throw the dice against tobacco
Active has produced a board game which will be introduced in Experience2010. “Throw the dice against tobacco” is a fun interactive board game through which the players can learn a lot about tobacco on the global scale. It can be played with up to 5 players with a minimum age of 12 years. In the game you are responsible for your own country and with some knowledge, luck and strategic thinking you will lead your country to be a healthy non-smoking community.