What will be the task of the new European Commissioner Hadja Lahbib? What do these attributions represent, in particular crisis preparation and management? Will it have to anticipate floods like those that occurred in Spain or forest fires like in Portugal? “That’s exactly it“, replies Hadja Lahbib. It’s also “prevent pandemics, anticipate them, know what we are going to do“, she continues. It is up to her to manage the crisis center of the European Union and the European aid mechanism to which member states can call.
Responding to these calls is one thing, but, says the commissioner, “now what we have to do is stop responding and anticipate, whether for pandemics, whether for natural disasters, whether also for hybrid attacks, for terrorist attacks, for wars“. In short, it will be “to implement European solidarity in the face of all the risks we face today“.
As we know, within the European Commission, several commissioners are concerned by these powers. For example, organizing European aid around natural disasters will require, for example, being in contact with the commissioner in charge of climate… Hadja Lahbib is counting on “synergies“. “I counted roughly, there are at least ten commissioners with whom I will have to be in direct contact“.
In any case, the new commissioner believes that she will be “in action“. And to those who think otherwise, Hadja Lahbib replies, “I’m totally hands-on“, to clearly demonstrate the concrete side of his new work.
His job will also consist of managing European humanitarian aid around the world. “We have around forty positions around the world,” explains Hadja Lahbib. “We are present in Afghanistan, we are present in Yemen, we are present in Sudan, we are present in the Democratic Republic of Congo“, she explains.
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