Image: EuractivThe Brief – Pressure mounts for EU sanctions on Israeli extremists
• EU crisis management chief Hadja Lahbib announced on Tuesday that the bloc is placing its largest-ever firefighting force on standby to combat an increase in wildfires. • The initiative follows a trend of forest fires starting earlier and growing in scale, with responses already required this spring in Czechia, Germany, Italy, and Poland. • This escalation in readiness highlights the EU's urgent need to mitigate climate-driven environmental disasters across member states.
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