Travelling abroad for pleasure, education, or work has become a natural part of life for many European citizens. Products and services can be bought in another member state when required, but obtaining healthcare outside their country of residence still presents a problem to most European citizens.

Several days ago the European Court of Justice issued a precedent ruling in which it addressed the issue of regulation of working time and the remuneration of a Czech doctor. It is a noteworthy text.

Round table on citizens' mobility called "Accessibility of high quality health care as a condition to the free movement of citizens within the European Union" was held on the 14th of June 2007 in the European Parliament under the patronage of MUDr. Milan Cabrnoch.

Experts from the European Union and the United States started an intensive cooperation in the field of health care, concretely eHealth. They met for the first time in history for a one day conference in Brussels on Thursday the 10th of May 2007. I was the only member of the European parliament who had the opportunity to participate at this conference.

The basic building blocks of the European Union are (so some would say) four freedoms: free movement of capital, goods, people and services. A couple of months ago, the European Parliament passed with considerable difficulties and several amendments a directive on the free movement of services in the EU internal market.

The European social model is basically a promise of politicians to their citizens: a promise to protect their citizens from certain problems, "to take care of them". Nowadays, the promise of social security is the most important offer that the politicians have to offer to their citizens in exchange for their support of the project of the European Union.

We are pleased to announce that approximately 40 full scholarships are made available by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the one-year fulltime M.Sc. programme in Public Health as offered by the Faculty of Health Sciences at Maastricht University, the Netherlands, for the coming academic year 2006/2007.

On 10 May 2006 Dr. Cabrnoch participate on international eHealth Conference held in Málaga, Spain. He presented his speech called "Better Communication: A Way to Better Health" on the workshop "eHealth in an enlarged Europe: A universe of opportunities". Attached you find Dr. Cabrnoch´s speech and also the programme of whole event.

In health care, we talk about availability of care for all, about financial stability of systems and about the quality of the health care. Quality, availability and financial stability were set as the main goals for the development and reform of the health care systems in a European Commission report titled, "Modernising social protection for the development of high-quality, accessible and sustainable health care and long-term care".

On Wednesday the 13th of September 2005, a seminar devoted to the problems of oncology in the member states of the European Union took place in the premises of the European Parliament. I gladly accepted the patronage over the seminar as well as participation in its organization.

The proposed Optical Radiation Directive has a long history. It was created approximately twelve years ago and was passed in the first reading in the European Parliament already in 1994! European officers have been working on the final form until now.