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Full -screen firefighting helicopters during a forest fire northeast of Athens last summer. Archive photo. Photo: Michael Varaklas/AP/TT
Make sure you have supplies at home for at least 72 hours, if the crisis comes.
The management comes from the EU in a new strategy for better preparedness for both war and disasters.
Russia’s war in Ukraine, but also concerns about floods and forest fires is behind the “emergency preparedness union” that the European Commission is trying to launch.
– We have to change our way of thinking. We have to think about how we are preparing in a more preventive way, notes an EU official about the strategy that is now being presented.
Most eye -catching: The public is urged to make sure to have sufficient supplies to cope for at least three days, in a crisis situation.
“Our citizens, our member states and our companies need to have the right tools in order to both prevent crises and react quickly when a disaster occurs,” said Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a press release.
In total, the strategy consists of 30 concrete points and an action plan. Among other things, minimum criteria are proposed for how prepared hospitals, schools and other necessary instances need to be. The European Commission also wants to see more layers with important equipment and more joint crisis exercises at EU level.
In addition, a special “emergency day” is proposed to further emphasize the importance of being ready.
Factseu’s emergency preparedness union
The European Commission has presented a strategy for a emergency preparedness union in order to improve the EU and Member States ‘capacity to prevent and act on emerging threats’.
Four special risk areas are pointed out:
* Natural disasters such as floods and forest fires
* Humanly coupled disasters such as industrial accidents and pandemics
* Hybrid threat as cyberattacks, disinformation and sabotage
* geopolitical crises as armed conflicts
The plan is largely based on a preparedness report presented by Finland’s former President Sauli Niinistö last year, on behalf of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
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