{"id":361095,"date":"2024-05-14T17:34:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T15:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/05\/14\/incendi-fondi-eu-rescue-2027\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T17:38:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T15:38:17","slug":"eu-council-extends-funding-to-purchase-and-lease-firefighting-aircraft-and-helicopters-to-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/05\/14\/eu-council-extends-funding-to-purchase-and-lease-firefighting-aircraft-and-helicopters-to-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Council extends funding to purchase and lease firefighting aircraft and helicopters to 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013 Today (May 14), the <strong>Council of the European Union<\/strong> has adopted the <strong>provision on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2023\/11\/13\/council-adopts-decision-on-funding-for-firefighting-planes-and-helicopters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">firefighting<\/a><\/strong>. According to the stipulation, the EU funding will <strong>extend until 2027, allowing states to purchase and lease firefighting aircraft and helicopters<\/strong>. The first European fleet intended for fire containment should be operational by then.<\/p>\n<p>The decision taken by the Council of the EU continues the strategy of fighting fires<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/03\/25\/eu-allocates-e600-million-to-strengthen-resceu-firefighting-air-fleet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> undertaken by the EU Commission long ago<\/a>. One of these measures was the creation of <strong>RescEU<\/strong> in 2019, a European civil protection capacity reserve that steps in to help member states protect citizens when, due to disasters, such as fires, existing response capacities are insufficient.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fight against the effects of climate change and forest fires must be a priority for the EU and its member states, as was made clear last summer,&#8221; said <strong>Fernando Grande-Marlaska G\u00f3mez<\/strong>, Spain&#8217;s Interior Minister, stressing that the EU Council&#8217;s decision is key to ensuring &#8220;Investment in improving air capacities, both aircraft and helicopters, to fight fires.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The measure is intended to cover the time needed to complete the creation of a European fleet under the RescEU civil protection program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7870,"featured_media":277880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712],"tags":[27870,27871,26949,27872],"class_list":["post-361095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-fernando-grande-marlaska-gomez-en","tag-firefighting-en","tag-incendi-en","tag-resurrected"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361095"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362044,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361095\/revisions\/362044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}