EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said in a speech on Wednesday that the commission intended to propose the creation of a new European firefighting hub based in Cyprus, a move President Nikos Christodoulides hailed as “a hugely important announcement”.
In her 2025 State of the Union address, von der Leyen said that “this summer, we all saw the pictures of Europe’s forests and villages on fire.”
“More than
