Heat domes expose cracks in Europe's climate resilience - Is the EU planning for a hotter future?

According to France 24, Europe's leaders are once again scrambling as heat domes settle over the continent. The European Parliament declared a climate emergency back in twenty nineteen, yet the bloc keeps getting caught flat-footed by severe heatwaves. With this summer's temperatures projected to shatter records and leave millions of Europeans sweltering, the question France 24 raises is whether the EU has focused on long-term targets while neglecting the short-term measures that actually help people trapped under these heat domes right now.

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