Europe needs more strategic crisis management

The report stresses that the EU needs to rethink risk and crisis management approaches, because crises are changing in nature, crossing borders and sectors, with cascading and overlapping effects on society, the economy and the environment. The EU authorities are therefore also advised to create stronger synergies across European institutions and between European Institutions and Member States.

The recommendations of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors are based on the analysis by the academy network SAPEA (Science Advice for Policy by European Academies) in the context of the EU Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM). SAM provides independent and interdisciplinary advice on request to the College of European Commissioners to inform policymaking.