European Union authorities will be meeting from Monday to adopt a European decision to coordinate ‘properly’ the decisions made by government authorities in the wake of the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. The meeting has been arranged for Monday evening at the initiative of Spain, which holds the union’s rotating presidency during the first half of this year. Officials of the European Commission and the Spanish presidency of the European on Sunday struggled to come up with a proper and effective response to what they call an ‘unprecedented’ closure of European airspace, but said EU officials would meet on the issue on Monday. Since Friday, most of the northwest European airspace has been closed because of a huge ash cloud from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which began erupting last Thursday. Siim Kallas, EC Vice-President in charge of Transport and Diego Loez Garrido, Spanish State Secretary for EU gave an overview of the situation in European skies and announced coming meetings throughout Monday to see what European governments and the European Union could do to mitigate the effects of the crisis on passengers and businesses Most flights remained grounded in large parts of the continent as authorities across Europe said there was no end in sight to the plume spewing out of a volcano in Iceland that they insist is dangerous to planes. Of around 24000 flights that normally operate on a Sunday only some 4000 will fly, Eurocontrol said. Eurocontrol …