{"id":458083,"date":"2026-06-25T19:18:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/06\/25\/lue-per-il-venezuela-colpito-dal-terremoto-attivati-il-meccanismo-di-protezione-civile-e-il-monitoraggio-satellitare\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T19:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:30:05","slug":"the-eu-stands-with-venezuela-the-civil-protection-mechanism-and-satellite-monitoring-have-been-activated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/06\/25\/the-eu-stands-with-venezuela-the-civil-protection-mechanism-and-satellite-monitoring-have-been-activated\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU stands with Venezuela: the Civil Protection Mechanism and satellite monitoring have been activated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 The European Union has activated <\/a> the EU Civil Protection Mechanism and the Copernicus Emergency Management Service, which uses the European satellites of the same name to monitor the ground in the event of natural disasters, to provide assistance to Venezuela, which was struck during the night in Europe by two violent earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 on the Richter scale, less than a minute apart. According to the latest reports, there are currently over 160 fatalities and 35,848 people still missing. \u201cIn these difficult hours, our thoughts are with the Venezuelan people,\u201d commented in a post on X<\/a> the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong>, adding that Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Portugal are sending search and rescue teams to the country<\/strong>. \u201cWe stand ready to offer further help, including medical assistance,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in a joint statement<\/a>, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas<\/strong>, the European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Hadja Lahbib<\/strong>, and the Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jozef S\u00edkela<\/strong>, have expressed, on behalf of the EU, their \u201ccondolences to the families and loved ones of the victims of the devastating earthquakes that have struck Venezuela\u201d and \u201cthe EU\u2019s solidarity, at this difficult time, with the Venezuelan people and all those engaged in rescue and relief operations.\u201d The three members of the EU College noted that \u201cthese earthquakes have occurred at a time when millions of Venezuelans continue to face severe humanitarian needs\u201d and emphasised that \u201cthe European Union is in contact with the authorities and stands ready to support emergency response efforts<\/strong>,
\nwhile already working with partners to assess urgent humanitarian needs as more information becomes available.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Von der Leyen: \u201cIn these difficult times, we stand with the people of Venezuela,\u201d and \u201cItaly, Spain, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Portugal are sending search and rescue teams to the country\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712],"tags":[27747,26512,34620,34621,33394,28013,25921],"class_list":["post-458083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-aid-en","tag-copernicus-and","tag-mappatura-satellitare","tag-meccanismo-protezione-civile","tag-ue","tag-venezuela-en","tag-von-der-leyen-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458084,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458083\/revisions\/458084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}