Brussels, 05/03/2008 (Agence Europe) - On 5 March, the European Commission presented its recommendations for improving the EU's response, to disasters, natural or man-made, at home and abroad.
Major disasters, such as the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in December 2004, the 2006 war in Lebanon, forest fires and floods in Europe in the summer of 2007 and the increasingly frequent disasters caused by climate change have shown the need for the EU to have a rapid and effective response capacity....