Increasing the EU’s prevention, preparedness and response capacity for the 2023 forest fire season and beyond was at the heart of talks between the EU Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, and the Portuguese authorities on Tuesday 10 January in Lisbon.
On the same day, a workshop of experts from the member countries of the Union’s Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM) was held in Lisbon, organised by the Commission to draw lessons from the particularly devastating 2022 fire...