India, June 27 -- Improving transportation links, ending energy isolation and building more homes are some of the key initiatives the European Union's executive arm is looking to enact under a pair of first-ever strategies designed to help the bloc's islands and coastal communities flourish, EU officials said Friday. Some 17 million people live in more than 4,000 islands across the EU, including three island members - Ireland, Malta and Cyprus. Another 95 million live along the coasts of 22 member states. "Islands have been overlooked in the past, but now that comes to an end," European Parliament Vice President Younous Omarjee told a conference on strengthening EU islands and coastal communities. The strategies aim to do away with piecem...