The 2008 annual meeting of the European Association of Urology (EAU) recently took place in my home town of Milan, Italy. I would like to personally thank all the participants of this extraordinarily successful congress. Nearly 13 000 people thronged the busy rooms of the convention centre. It was impressive that, notwithstanding the warm temperature of the sunny Italian spring, it was always difficult find a seat in the overcrowded scientific sessions.At European Urology, the official journal of the EAU, we have been striving to maintain the fast and successful pace of our mother association [1-4], and I am pleased to share with you today some of the innovations that we have recently implemented in the interest of our readers and authors.
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