EUrologus
As wildfires tend to increase, the number of firefighters decreases across Europe
Despite decades of targeted financial support, the differences in training and equipment across Europe make cooperation challenging and often inefficient.
The price of climate change: EU countries splash out to fight forest fires
A new EU agricultural policy has brought a qualitative change in forest-fire protection. Governments will now spend twice as much as before on measures such as reforestation to reduce soil drying.
Forest and bushfires in Hungary: the canopy rarely burns, but the situation is still serious
In each of the past 12 years, there have been at least 2,600 wildfires in Hungary. The immediate cause is almost always human negligence, but global warming and agricultural methods are to blame as well.
Big Tobacco lobbying: EU Ombudsman takes on industry practices
Only a few days remain for the European Commission to address the tobacco lobby-related concerns recently raised by the EU Ombudsman in her recent preliminary findings. The industry is heavily represented in Brussels, but there is not sufficient transparency on its interactions with policy-makers.
