The Rheinland-Pfalz Minister-President Malu Dreyer (SPD) and Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel signed an agreement in Mertert on Monday, the Ministry of the Interior announced.
The main aim of the agreement is to “ensure the rapid, effective, and efficient intervention of cross-border emergency rescue services in the event of disasters or serious accidents”.
Until this new agreement was reached, there was only a rough framework drawn up between Luxembourg and Germany on civil security, which dates back to 1978.
The current agreement is a step towards a legal framework to establish a concrete cooperative plan between Luxembourg and the federal state of Rheinland-Pfalz in the event of emergency situations.
