The European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, is expecting a boost from the annual meeting of civil protection experts from the member countries of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM), organised this year in Rome by the European Commission and the Italian Minister for Civil Protection, Nello Musumeci, on 30 November and 1 December, to coincide with the start of the COP28 climate conference in Dubai.
Some fifty representatives from 30 European countries have...