(AGENPARL) – Wed 18 June 2025 PUBLIC HEARING
Committee on Budgets
Management and preparedness to extreme weather events and
natural disasters in the EU budget
Tuesday, 24 June 2025, 14:30-16:30
Room SPINELLI 3G3
PROGRAMME
Introduction
14:30-14:35
Welcome by Johan Van Overtveldt, Chair of the Committee on
Budgets
14:35-14:45
Topical overview presented by Lenka Filipkova, Director at BUDG
A – Expenditure, European Commission
Panel 1 – EU Mechanisms in Response to Natural and Climate Disasters
14:45-14:55
Eulalia Rubio, senior Research Fellow on European economic
affairs at the Institut Jacques Delors
14:55-15:05
Marco Panigalli, Head of Unit – Civil Protection Emergency
Response Capabilities – DG ECHO A4, European Commission
15:05-15:35
Questions and answers
Panel 2 – European Initiatives on Preparedness to Environmental and Climate
Risks in Europe
15:35-15:45
Aleksandra Kazmierczak, expert in climate change and human
health at European Environment Agency (EEA)
15:45-15:55
Marie Evo, Co-Director at European Center for Flood Risk
Prevention and Management (CEPRI)
15:55-16:25
Questions and answers
Conclusion
16:25-16:30
Concluding remarks by the Chair