Brussels, 08/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - All thirty countries taking part in the Community's civil protection mechanism have contacted the Commission's Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC) to offer assistance to the United States in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Stavros Dimas, Environment and Civil Protection Commissioner, welcomes this mobilisation of assistance which is unprecedented in the history of the civil protection unit for coordinating natural resources set up in 2001 within...