Commissioner Lahbib Addresses Romanian Parliament on Equality, Preparedness and Humanitarian Aid

EU Commissioner Lahbib addressed the Romanian Parliament on 10 September 2026, covering her portfolio of equality, preparedness and crisis management, and humanitarian aid. She noted Romania's female employment rate is nearly 19 percentage points lower than men's, widening to nearly 27 points in rural areas, and that Romania has built 110 new nurseries with EU recovery funds. On preparedness, the EU has proposed a new Union Civil Protection Mechanism regulation and adopted strategies on stockpiling, medical countermeasures, water resilience and a comprehensive wildfire plan. Romania requested Civil Protection Mechanism help ten times over the past decade while assisting other countries 49 t…