Building societal security in Europe: the EU's role in managing emergencies

Apr 17, 2007

Antonio Missiroli

Arjen Boin

Magnus Ekengren

Bengt Sundelius

Mark Rhinard

Senior Adviser on societal security issues

SECURITY POLICY

This Working Paper charts the EU’s growing role in this area, identifies the major challenges in developing this role and sketches out some possible ways forward.

Read the full paper here

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