The European Union will push its member countries to invest more in environmental management to reduce wildfire risk, the bloc’s environment commissioner told Reuters on Thursday, as experts said the economic cost of this summer’s blazes had already exceeded €15 billion.

Europe’s wildfire crisis is testing the limits of the EU’s emergency response system, exposing a gap between growing firefighting capacity and slower efforts to make landscapes…

Domestic insurers are expected to absorb most of the losses from Europe's worst wildfire season in recent history, but the blazes are also raising a bigger question: who will pay…