COMMISSIONERS-DESIGNATE HEARINGS IN EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT / Humanitarian aid

In face of longer and more complex crises, Janez Lenarčič intends to adopt an “integrated approach”

Brussels, 30/09/2019 (Agence Europe)

The Commissioner-designate for Crisis Management, Slovenian Janez Lenarčič, has repeatedly stressed the need for an integrated, or holistic, approach to dealing with crises in his answers to MEPs' written questions on Friday 27 September.

In his view, the current crises facing the European Union are becoming increasingly dire, complex and long-lasting, with climate change at the forefront, and the adoption of an “integrated approach” to managing these crises, which combine emergency...