Portugal will ask for reinforcement of resources from the European Civil Protection Mechanism, announces minister
José Luís Carneiro found enough mechanisms, this fair, that the means of fighting fires were plentiful this summer. Speaking to ‘Renascença’ radio, the Minister of Internal Administration will therefore ask for the reinforcement of the Mechanism and propose measures to make it more effective at the meeting of the 27 Member States to take stock of the fire season and the European response.
The European Union fleet has not been able to respond to the many requests from countries, including Portugal, Spain, Greece and Italy, so an increase in human and technical resources will be necessary. This is the idea that the Government will propose today in Brussels. “In this case, it will be necessary to assess how the European Union can strengthen the material and human resources for a common civil protection device. The most important thing is that the European Union itself mobilizes itself, as it did during the pandemic, to buy together various resources that can be adapted to the countries, but can reinforce the materials and humans that even later when expanding the Member States ”, he defended, admitting that Portugal may have an aircraft base from “RescEU”, the European civil protection reserve.
“Portugal is available to contribute to this common European effort. It matters, the selected countries, the unspecified means in the center of Europe, may be concentrated in the countries, which are specifically more in the region of the Europe region, which are, shall we say, closer to the Europe region. ”, he needed.
“Portugal had support, but it is evident that it refers to these problems, because there were very critical moments, absolutely exceptional circumstances in which media that refer to this most resemble, remembering that the fire season is not yet over. “What we have to face is very difficult, it is very demanding. And we count on the cooperation of all forces as civil protection services and services and, naturally, that the means may be able to maintain security with certainty that they will not be distributed and will be”, he concluded.