Press Release: Fourth Verona Conference on Road Safety: on track towards saving 25,000 lives

Vice-President Jacques Barrot opened, together with Alessandro Bianchi, Italian Minister of Transport, and his Finnish counterpart, Susanna Huovinen, the Fourth Verona Conference on Road Safety, 3 November 2006. More than 30 ministerial delegations from Europe and beyond will exchange their views on "Innovative Approaches to Road Safety”. This conference is important to promote the topic of road safety, especially with a view to the set target to reduce the number of fatalities by 50% until 2010.