By Penelope Galliou

The unprecedented natural disaster that hit the country with incalculable damages, just days after the devastating fires, make even more imperative the need to review and strengthen the state’s civil protection planning. A need that is underlined by all the experts and the scientific community which is sounding the alarm about the accelerated climate change and its consequences, which our country is already facing, and which are the subject of a series of government meetings with the final milestone being the speech of of the Prime Minister on Saturday at the TIF and his announcements about the promoted changes in the field of civil protection.

The latest tragic developments and extreme flooding phenomena in central Greece since the onset of the catastrophic bad weather Danielalso put on her agenda TEF the issue of political protection and the reorganization of the entire state apparatus, to which the prime minister will devote a large part of his speech as Kyriakos Mitsotakis himself, according to government sources, has repeatedly emphasized that the state has an obligation in all its aspects to become more and more durable at all levels.

The aim is, according to information, based on the climate change that is “present”, to update all civil protection planning as well as the reorganization of the entire state mechanism that contributes to the prevention, treatment and restoration of natural disasters, whether they originate from catastrophic fires , either from floods or other types of catastrophic natural phenomena.

The main responsibility and burden of this reorganization is expected to be shouldered, in addition to Ministry of Civil Protectionwhich has the “general order” throughout the previous period in every natural disaster that hit the country, and the Ministry of Environment and Energy, the Transport and Infrastructure and also the Ministry of Defense.

And if the measures and planning to prevent and deal with fires have already been discussed in the political arena and the government has unfolded its updated plan with the policy draft protection “AEGIS” of a total budget of 1.7 billion euros, from the stage of the TIF, specific references are also expected to be made to the prevention measures for the remaining natural disasters that may strike the country and require the strengthening of civil protection. Measures that will focus on citizen safety, the strengthening of public and private infrastructure, but also the active involvement and coordination of regions, municipalities and civil society against climate change and the phenomena it causes.