European Economic
and Social Committee
Additional assistance to outermost regions - Related links
European Commission
- Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 228/2013 as regards additional assistance and further flexibility to outermost regions affected by severe natural disasters and in the context of cyclone Chido devastating Mayotte (2025) (EN only)
- The European Strategy for Outermost Regions (2025) (EN only)
- COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS European Union Disaster Resilience Goals: Acting together to deal with future emergencies (2023)
- EU Factsheet: Disaster Resilience Goals (February 2023) (EN only)
- Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, Midterm Review 2023 (2023) (EN only)
- COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS European Union Disaster Resilience Goals: Acting together to deal with future emergencies (2023)
- Outermost regions at a glance – assets, challenges and opportunities (2022)
- Communication Putting people first, securing sustainable and inclusive growth, unlocking the potential of the EU’s outermost regions (May 2022)
- Vulnerability and impact assessment of the EU’s outermost regions - Publications Office of the EU (DG Clima, 2021)
- REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the implementation of the scheme of specific measures for agriculture in favour of the outermost regions of the Union (POSEI) (2016) (EN only)
European Parliament
- Factsheet Outermost regions (2025) (EN only)
- EU response to the Caribbean hurricanes | Epthinktank | European Parliament (EPRS, 2017) (EN only)
European Central Bank
- EIOPA and ECB joint paper: Towards a European system for natural catastrophe risk management - EIOPA (2024) (EN only)
IMF
- Strengthening Fiscal Frameworks in the Presence of Rising Risk of Natural Disasters (February 2025) (EN only)
OECD
- Innovative agro-food industries in the EU Outermost Regions (October 2023) (EN only)
Think tanks and other organisations
- Climate change could trigger debt crises, with adaptation providing only partial relief (Calcaterra et al., Bruegel, 2025) (EN only)
- Better braced for disaster: upgrading EU support mechanisms (Garcia-Herrero, Mejino-Lopez, Bruegel, 2024) (EN only)
- United Nations Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
- “Natural” disasters and regional governance: Evidence from European NUTS-3 regions (Di Marcoberardino, Cucculelli, 2024), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100003 (EN only)