Today is European 112 Day 🇪🇺
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@EUCommission surprisingly this also works in the UK?
Obviously it works also in Switzerland:
(I did not try it in order to not block any really urgent help)
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@EUCommission You can also use that number in the UK, but many Brits don't know that.
@Pamela1960 @EUCommission This works in Canada also, if you happen to forget how to call 9-1-1. I discovered that by accident about a decade ago.
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@kDelta @dmian @Caprarius @mikaeleiman @EUCommission Ah yes, the logical pyramid.
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@kDelta @dmian @Caprarius @mikaeleiman @EUCommission @phl
To be fair, your proposed m/d/y would correspond to min:s:hr which I hope you understand is even worse? It's not 34:52:12
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@dmian @Caprarius @mikaeleiman @EUCommission DD-MM-YYYY is just as wrong as saying it's now 2 minutes and 12 o'clock, or that someone is 81 centimetres and 1 meter tall
It's not easier, it's just something you're used to.
(Also, YYYY-MM-DD is perfectly fine for people in Japan, Korea, China and Hungary)
@phl @Caprarius @mikaeleiman @EUCommission In case my last note was not clear, I was just kidding. I know a lot of these has to do with how languages work. In Spanish, today is 11 de febrero de 2026, so, our order in conversation is 11-2-2026, and that’s why we use that. Cultures from the east just adopted standards because their calendars are way different (lunar, lunisolar, with eras, etc). I like to make fun of it, because the internet
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@haaflife @EUCommission Are yours subcontracted to private operators that exploit their employees too? Might be worth looking into who runs it, because in Andalucia and Valencia that's exactly what "happens".
Just in case some EUropeans think the EU somehow *operates* 112. It does not.
@Veza85UE @EUCommission good question, I have no idea! In Germany, where I used to live and work as a paramedic, the agents of the emergency hotline were well paid and highly qualified (medical background + work experience in emergency services + extra training)
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Today is European 112 Day
112 is the EU’s single emergency number. It connects you to ambulance, fire brigade or police. It’s free of charge across Europe and offers language support in many countries.
A life-saving number everyone should know.
@EUCommission and it’s not on January 12th?
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Today is European 112 Day
112 is the EU’s single emergency number. It connects you to ambulance, fire brigade or police. It’s free of charge across Europe and offers language support in many countries.
A life-saving number everyone should know.
@EUCommission Thanks to the EU, not only Europe has it, many countries around the world have 112: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/112_(emergency_telephone_number) -- all of Continental Europe, big chunks of Africa, India, and many Pacific islands! And many countries (eg China, US) redirect with a voice message to their local equivalent.
Quite a great success for those who battled to get it everywhere! Thanks folks from 1976 at CEPT!
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Today is European 112 Day
112 is the EU’s single emergency number. It connects you to ambulance, fire brigade or police. It’s free of charge across Europe and offers language support in many countries.
A life-saving number everyone should know.
@EUCommission 112 works exactly the same as 999 in Britain. The call goes to the same emergency operator if dialed from any landlines, payphones or mobile phones (even if locked as 999).
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Today is European 112 Day
112 is the EU’s single emergency number. It connects you to ambulance, fire brigade or police. It’s free of charge across Europe and offers language support in many countries.
A life-saving number everyone should know.
@EUCommission What was wrong with 0118 999 881 999 119 7253? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWc3WY3fuZU
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@EUCommission Thanks to the EU, not only Europe has it, many countries around the world have 112: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/112_(emergency_telephone_number) -- all of Continental Europe, big chunks of Africa, India, and many Pacific islands! And many countries (eg China, US) redirect with a voice message to their local equivalent.
Quite a great success for those who battled to get it everywhere! Thanks folks from 1976 at CEPT!
@jeroen @EUCommission "Thanks folks" did you not find us out in the Atlantic when you were learning Mid-Atlantic English?
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@EUCommission you hear all the time "the EU cost us soooo much, what does the EU do for us?"
People are so ignorant, cause they don't remember, how it was once. I am out of a generation that had the experience!
One phone number for emergency calls, you can visit a doctor in another EU country with your insurance card, no passport needed into EU, no problem with your EU driver license, you pay the same price in a foreign EU mobile phone net, like at home etc.
Just more of EU standardization!
@SummerOf68 @EUCommission IN which part of the EU do you not need a passport on entry from outside the EU? There is ONE place and I am 100% sure you don't know where it is
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@EUCommission you hear all the time "the EU cost us soooo much, what does the EU do for us?"
People are so ignorant, cause they don't remember, how it was once. I am out of a generation that had the experience!
One phone number for emergency calls, you can visit a doctor in another EU country with your insurance card, no passport needed into EU, no problem with your EU driver license, you pay the same price in a foreign EU mobile phone net, like at home etc.
Just more of EU standardization!
@SummerOf68 @EUCommission Also in European English we don't use American spellings so it is standardisation
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@haploc @phl @Caprarius @mikaeleiman @EUCommission Except of course Hungary
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@dmian @Caprarius @mikaeleiman @EUCommission DD-MM-YYYY is just as wrong as saying it's now 2 minutes and 12 o'clock, or that someone is 81 centimetres and 1 meter tall
It's not easier, it's just something you're used to.
(Also, YYYY-MM-DD is perfectly fine for people in Japan, Korea, China and Hungary)
@phl @dmian @Caprarius @mikaeleiman @EUCommission Centimetres, metres. Yet another non standard euro
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Today is European 112 Day
112 is the EU’s single emergency number. It connects you to ambulance, fire brigade or police. It’s free of charge across Europe and offers language support in many countries.
A life-saving number everyone should know.
@EUCommission 112 is great. Makes life more safe. Works fine in Denmark.
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Today is European 112 Day
112 is the EU’s single emergency number. It connects you to ambulance, fire brigade or police. It’s free of charge across Europe and offers language support in many countries.
A life-saving number everyone should know.
@EUCommission a good idea, copied from the original 999 call in the UK (999 was a sensible number when dial phones existed, not so much now with pocket-dialling errors).
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@EUCommission you hear all the time "the EU cost us soooo much, what does the EU do for us?"
People are so ignorant, cause they don't remember, how it was once. I am out of a generation that had the experience!
One phone number for emergency calls, you can visit a doctor in another EU country with your insurance card, no passport needed into EU, no problem with your EU driver license, you pay the same price in a foreign EU mobile phone net, like at home etc.
Just more of EU standardization!
Thank you for the comment, @SummerOf68!
We aim to standardise the things that make our lives easier, while celebrating and protecting the diversity that makes Europe so vibrant!
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@foo__
For sure!
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@EUCommission and it’s not on January 12th?
@bendirgo
Here in the EU, we generally prefer the format DDMM.
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@EUCommission a good idea, copied from the original 999 call in the UK (999 was a sensible number when dial phones existed, not so much now with pocket-dialling errors).
@UkeleleEric @EUCommission it was both sensible and not. 999 takes almost the longest possible amount of time on a dial phone, which is the opposite of what you need in an emergency. But it was chosen in order to reduce the likelihood of a false positive.
112 is nearly the shortest amount of time on a dial phone. And the choice of two different digits reduces the likelihood of a false positive on both dial and button phones.
