At the European Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday 1 April, MEPs debated the ‘Preparedness Union Strategy’ which was presented by the European Commission on 26 March(see EUROPE B13608A1).
Present in the Chamber, the European Commissioner for Preparedness, Hadja Lahbib, pointed out that the Commission’s strategy “is based on an all-hazards approach, encompassing natural as well as man-made disasters and hybrid threats, which can often take unpredictable...