There is no time to lose: the EU must act now and boost its civil protection capabilities to prepare for and better respond to the 2023 forest fire season, warned Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič at the opening of a roundtable discussion organised by the European Commission in cooperation with the Czech Presidency of the EU Council in Brussels on Monday 5 September.
The aim was to “launch the debate” on this subject with the Ministers or State Secretaries of the...