Imagine you are visiting an EU country or at home and you need to contact an ambulance, the fire brigade or the police. Would you know which emergency number to call?
As Europeans are increasingly travelling for business or leisure, millions of people could be faced with this problem. Fortunately, there is no need to look up and remember the emergency numbers for each EU country you are visiting. Just remember 112!
112 is the European emergency number, reachable from fixed and mobile phones, free of charge, everywhere in the EU.
Source
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/112/index_en.htm
