Europe Is on Fire. The Political Fallout Is Just Beginning.
Spain has already burned more than 130,000 hectares this season — five times last year’s total by this point. France’s Gironde wildfire has broken every modern record. The EU Civil Protection Mechanism is activated. And with presidential elections in both countries in 2027, the scramble to assign blame has already started.
The stakes are enormous: wildfires have hit Portugal, Greece, Italy, Croatia, Albania, Germany and the Western Balkans this summer. Southern Europe is testing the limits of national firefighting capacity, and the EU’s shared response wasn’t built for this scale. The political and insurance costs are only beginning to land.
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