28/01/2016 (Agence Europe) - Inauguration of European Centre of Excellence for Forest Protection. On Friday 29 January, the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, Christos Stylianides, will attend, together with the French Minister for the Interior, Bernard Cazeneuve, the inauguration of the European Centre of Excellence for Air Rescue Operations and the Fight against Forest Fires, at the Nîmes Garons airbase. He will also be visiting civil protection training centres and schools and and French civil security intervention units and teams that specialise in tackling forest fires and air medical evacuations. In a press release published the day before he left, the Commissioner emphasised “the importance of mobilising all areas of capability, in an effort to provide the most effective European response to natural disasters”. (AN)