- For Captain Laurent Alfonso, an expert in European civil protection, global warming requires us to be “ready to intervene everywhere, all the time and for all kinds of disasters”.
- Captain Laurent Alfonso, a fire officer, European Affairs Officer at the Directorate General for Civil Security and Crisis Management, European and International Relations Mission and Seconded National Expert on civil protection at the Union for the Mediterranean, spoke to EURACTIV France.
- The EU has reinforced this mechanism with a specific complementary protocol, RescEU, which has acquired a fleet of 12 Canadair aircraft to fight wildfires, which France used this summer.
Collaboration key to disaster prevention, says EU civil protection expert
