WHAT IS COMMON ?AND

WHAT IS DIFFERENT?The more we share, the more we have!

OUR SHARED SPACES

24 OFFICIAL LANGUAGES 500 MILLION PEOPLE 28 COUNTRIES

SIMILARATIES

Italian belongs to Romance languages, a family of European languages that all have their roots in Latin. The major Romance languages also include French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and Catalan.

Sharing similar roots, Italian, Spanish and Romanian have considerable similarities in vocabulary and grammar. This means that speakers of one Romance language should find it relatively easy to learn another.

However Romanian has developed very differently from the other Romance languages. Geographically and culturally it has grown to incorporate large numbers of Slavic words and uses formal noun cases, which the western Romance languages do not.

DIFFERENCES

The Cyrillic vs the Latin alphabetThe Cyrillic Alphabet is one of the most widely used alphabet scripts in the world with approximately 250 million active users.

The basic script for Slavic languages contains 49 letters: A, Б, В, Г, Ґ, Д, Ђ, Ѓ, Е, Ё, Є, Ж, З, ЗA,

Ѕ, И, І, Ї, Й, Ј, К, Л, Љ, М, Н, Њ, О, П, Р, С, СA, Т, Ћ, Ќ, У, Ў, U, Ф, Х, Ц, Ч, Џ, Ш, Щ, Ъ, Ы, Ь,

Э, Ю, and Я. Bulgarian still uses Cyrillic and shares Slavic

roots with Polish and in part with Lithuanian.The latter languages use the Latin alphabet.

THE EUROPEAN UNION CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS

Binding for all the EU's activities

54 articles under 6 titles:  4 Dignity

4 Freedoms

4 Equality

4 Solidarity

4 Citizens' rights

4 Justice

SURFACE AREA IN 1000 SQUARE KMSpain Poland Italy Romania Bulgaria Lithuania Turkey

506 313 295 230 111 63 770

Italy Spain Poland Romania Bulgaria Lithuania Turkey

60.8 46.2 38,5 21.4 7.3 3.0 73.7

POPULATION IN MILLIONS

2012 GDP PER INHABITANTINDEX WHERE THE AVERAGE OF THE 28 EU-COUNTRIES IS 100

Italy Spain Lithuania Poland Romania Bulgaria Turkey

99 97 70 66 49 47 13.6

THE €URO

Can be used everywhere in the euro area

4Coins: one side with national symbols, one side common 4Notes: no national side

EU countries using the euroEU countries not using the euro

Spain Italy

Poland : ZłotyRomania : LeuLithuania : LitasBulgaria : LevTurkey : Lira

THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

Bulgaria Italy Lithuania

Poland Romania Spain

18 73 12 51 33 54

The total members in the Parliament is at present 766 but will be reduced to 751 at the 22nd/25th May 2014 elections

Number of our European MPs

The parliament 4 Decides EU laws and budget together with Council of Ministers4 Democratic supervision of all the EU’s work

ITALY AND EUROPE ENJOY AND HAVE A LITTLE FUN

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Thank You, Partners!!!

Itis Giovanni XXIII – RomaFOR