-The main activities will take place on 1 and 2 December at the Barcelona headquarters, where there will be an exhibition featuring ten non-profit organisations which, among other things, will be inviting the abertis employees to join their charity projects.

• The event is expected to by attended by the Minister of European Affairs of the Italian Government, Andrea Ronchi, the Mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, the Spanish Ambassador in Italy, Luis Calvo Merino, the Chairman of abertis, Salvador Alemany, the Chairman of the abertis Foundation, Miquel Roca, and the Chairman of the Foundation’s Italian office, Giancarlo Elia Valori.

• This afternoon sees the last in the series of symposia on the subject of road safety, held in Barcelona and Madrid over the last four weeks.
• Today’s talk will feature Pere Navarro, director general of Traffic, and Rafael Olmos, advisor to the Catalan minister of home affairs on transversal projects, Institutional Relations and Participation.

• This afternoon sees the last in the series of symposia on the subject of road safety, held in Barcelona and Madrid over the last four weeks.
• Today’s talk will feature Pere Navarro, director general of Traffic, and Rafael Olmos, advisor to the Catalan minister of home affairs on transversal projects, Institutional Relations and Participation.

• The vast majority of convictions are for driving without a licence or under the influence of alcohol, according to Bartolomé Vargas, the public prosecutor responsible for road safety.
• The president of the association of victims of traffic accidents, Maria Eugenia Domènech, called for an office to support family members of those killed in accidents. She described these relatives as “the other victims”, some of them “scarred for life”.
• This series of talks is part of the road safety programme run by the abertis foundation, which this year is celebrating its tenth anniversary.

The councillor for safety and mobility on Madrid city council, Pedro Luis Calvo, took part yesterday in the second symposium in the series of talks on “Different perspectives for integrated action on road safety” organised by the abertis foundation, during which he stated, “We are failing because road safety is not yet an obligatory subject, something to which the state ought to be committed.”