Organizations call for reforms in civil protection

9. Apr 2025 | Allgemein, Bevölkerungsschutz in Deutschland

Five major aid organizations – ASB, DLRG, DRK, Johanniter and Malteser – are calling for far-reaching reforms in civil protection in a joint position paper. In the face of increasing natural disasters, they are pushing for integrated, nationwide crisis...

Thuringia’s Interior Minister Maier on disaster control

9. Apr 2025 | Allgemein, Bevölkerungsschutz in Deutschland

Thuringia’s Minister of the Interior, Georg Maier, believes that violence against emergency services is primarily a social problem. In an interview with the magazine Behörden Spiegel, he emphasizes that existing laws are sufficient and instead advocates...

Persistent Drought in Europe

8. Apr 2025 | Allgemein, drought

The German Weather Service (DWD) warns of ongoing drought in Europe. Current climate models from the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) show that particularly Eastern Europe, including Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine, is affected by exceptionally...

GNDR Statement on the USAID Funding Freeze

7. Apr 2025 | Allgemein

The Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR) has issued a statement in response to the recent executive order by the United States halting all foreign assistance programs. This decision has led to the immediate suspension and...

New publication published: Hochwasser – Inundaciones – Floods

7. Apr 2025 | Allgemein, Hochwasser, Mitglieder

The current issue “Hochwasser- Inundaciones – Floods” of the anthology “Integrative Risk and Security Research” takes a comprehensive look at the flood events of October 2024 in Valencia, but also contains articles on other regions at risk of flooding, such as...