fires. Portugal ″available″ to host European air assets base
The Minister of Internal Administration, José Luís Carneiro, considers the goals proposed by Brussels for the reinforcement of the aerial decades in the European Union, at the end of the European Union.
“2029 2030 for later and these reinforcements in means are already very much a function of the new circumstances and the extremes we will have to face”stated José Luís Carneiro, underlining that “yesterday would be too late”.
2 Minister with Minister Janez, on the sidelines, on the sidelines, meeting of the Minister of Brussels 7 responsible for the protection with 2 of Crisis, Le this afternoon, this Monday afternoon, that this Monday of a civil meeting with the need for “one of the means” in the European Union.
Minister José Luís Carneiro reported that the 27 had accepted a proposal to carry out “a repositioning of air assets according to the risks considered”.
“This media pre-positioning experiment had been done in Greece [onde] resulted from the point of view of speed of response. And, this was necessarily, for the majority, why they spoke, to create four proposals of pre-positioning centers for these same means”stated José Luís Carneiro, reporting on the “availability of Portugal” expressed to the Commission.
“Portugal expressed its willingness to host one of these means of pre-positioning, if necessary, in articulation with Spain, as it must be, in everything that has to do with the proximity of the border, creating a faster response within the framework of the Iberian Peninsula”said the minister.
Carneiro wants this year, “in November”, to take place “a seminar to draw on the experience in training during this course and for us to extract knowledge from the great seminars across Europe and also held across Europe”.
The purpose of the initiative is “contribute to an immediate action plan, in preparation for the year 2023, by the European Commission”integrating “the Mechanism that is produced in the units that integrate the national civil protection systems, (…) in the knowledge network that is currently developed within the framework of the European Civil Protection”.
The minister highlighted the greater awareness that exists within the framework of the European Union on the subject of fires, noting that awareness “this is not a problem for individual Member States due to the harmful effects of climate change”but “a problem for all Member States (…) common to the entire European Union”.