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The European Union Integrated Political Crisis Response Arrangements: Improving the European Union’s Major Crisis Response Coordination Capacities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2015

Iñigo de Miguel Beriain ,
Elena Atienza-Macías  and
Emilio Armaza Armaza
Iñigo de Miguel Beriain*
Affiliation:
Interuniversity Chair in Law and the Human Genome, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
Elena Atienza-Macías
Affiliation:
Interuniversity Chair in Law and the Human Genome, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain.
Emilio Armaza Armaza
Affiliation:
Interuniversity Chair in Law and the Human Genome, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Iñigo de Miguel Beriain, Senior Research Fellow UPV/EHU, Interuniversity Chair in Law and the Human Genome, Avda. Universidades, 24, Universidad de Deusto, 48007 Bilbao, Spain (e-mail: inigo.demiguelb@ehu.es, idemiguelb@yahoo.es).
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Abstract

In recent years, the European Union (EU) has progressively assumed more and more of a primary role in crisis response coordination. The EU Integrated Political Crisis Response arrangements (IPCR) were recently approved to facilitate this task. These new agreements, which substitute for the Crisis Coordination Agreements, will add more flexibility to crisis response mechanisms in the EU. They will also strengthen cooperation between the different relevant agents in a major crisis situation and create new useful tools, such as the Integrated Situational Awareness and Analysis. Their real performance still needs to be fully tested, but some weakness can already be foreseen. This article provides a deep analysis of this new legislation. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2015;9:234-238)

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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , June 2015 , pp. 234 - 238
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Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2015 

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