Last year,  over half a million (504,002) hectares, an area twice the size of Luxembourg, was scorched by wildfires, according to an advance report on Forest Fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 2023 published today by the Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC).

The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Theodoros Roussopoulos is currently attending an international conference on gender equality in action (68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women) organized by the United Nations in New York alongside women from various parts of the world.