We need to keep EU citizens at the heart of our resilience efforts; to protect their lives as well as to engage and prepare them when disasters strike.
Voluntary organisations, citizens working for citizens, have a special role in building resilience against various crises.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/JanezLenarcic/status/1626237559683821568
Here, my concluding remarks in the #EPlenary debate on 🇪🇺 initiative to promote civic engagement to protect and better support European volunteers, including comments regarding the application of the Working Time Directive to firefighting.👇
https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/video/I-237099
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/JanezLenarcic/status/1626237574657478656
Voluntary associations of 🇪🇺 citizens provide valuable response capacities in the face of ever more frequent natural disasters caused by climate change, as well as other crises. We will hence continue supporting voluntary participation in civil protection and disaster management.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/JanezLenarcic/status/1626237569108414464