People can now reach emergency services from anywhere in the EU, simply by dialling 112, the single European emergency number. Now that 112 can be called from any phone in Bulgaria, it has achieved complete availability just before the Christmas period when thousands of people travel between EU Member States to visit family, hit the slopes or look for winter sun. It also crowns the combined efforts of the European Commission and EU Member States to make 112 fully available everywhere so that Europeans will always have a lifeline in the EU.'
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Whilst in portugal last week our car broke down in an isolated area. Our car hand book and our Sat Nav told us to call 112 for breakdowns the policeman who answered laughed at us and told us he could not help & put the phone down! A policeman who stopped when passing had 112 on his car and could not believe it when we told him.
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