Brussels, 28/07/2008 (Agence Europe) - The Community's Civil Protection Mechanism, deployed by the European Commission (DG Environment), has for several days been on the point of helping Greece put out the massive forest fires that have devastated around 5000 hectares on the island of Rhodes.
Stavros Dimas, the European Commissioner for environment and civil protection, sees this as representing, “a high degree of solidarity of European countries. But it is also evidence of the...