European Commissioner Janez Lenarcic: “Sharing the burden of humanitarian aid is not fair!”

INTERVIEW

LThe needs are exploding but the financial resources do not follow: the actors of humanitarian aid are confronted with unprecedented challenges, further exacerbated… by the covid pandemic. The “leader of the sector” – the European Union – does not give up so far: the European Commission has a plan (a “communication”, in its jargon), unfolded on Wednesday. With a battery of avenues to strengthen its impact, despite the difficulties: it’s “geopolitical”, so does the “soft power” of the EU, admits European Commissioner Janez Lenarcic, in charge of crisis management, in an interview with the newspapers of the LéNA group, including The evening.

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