The European Commission's Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) is facilitating the urgent provision of assistance to extinguish the forest fires raging in Sweden. Two fire-fighting aircraft,...
Every year there are devastating forest fires in Europe, destroying thousands of hectares of forests. The south European countries are at higher risk, but no European...
European Commission President José Manuel Barroso today (4 August) attends the ceremonies in Liège and Mons commemorating the outbreak of the First World War. This morning...
"We condemn the shelling of an UNRWA school in Gaza and of a market in Shuja'iyeh. "It is unacceptable that innocent displaced civilians, who were taking...
The European Commission is giving an additional €10 million for Somalia in response to the increasing humanitarian needs there. This will help respond to the serious...
Jean-Claude Juncker's first official visit to an EU member state as Commission president-elect will be to Athens, Greece on 4 August 2014. In Athens, President-elect Juncker...
By Steven Keil, program officer in the Foreign and Security Policy Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington, DC The re-emerging...