Opening Remarks by Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans at the Press Conference on the Biodiversity Strategy and the Farm to Fork Strategy

Published on May 19, 2020

European Commission Speech Brussels, 20 May 2020 Thank you very much. I am glad to be standing here with Commissioners Kyriakides and Sinkevičius as we have been working very intensively over the last couple o...

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Successful testing of JRC’s “Tsunami Last Mile” early warning prototype system, in Kos, Greece

May 20, 2020
Late last year (on 9 November 2019), on the Greek island of Kos, the last step of the Tsunami Last Mile project - called the “KOSWAVE19-LM” exercise - took place. The Tsunami Last Mile project was initiated by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), following two tsunami events in the Aegean Sea on 12 June and 20 July 2017, which affected the coasts of Greece and Turkey. In both cas