Christos Stylianides, Member of the EC in charge of Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, went in Germany where he visited the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, met with Stephan Weil, Minister-President of the Land of Lower Saxony, and Boris Pistorius, Minister for the Interior and Sport of the Land of Lower Saxony, and, finally, visited the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service in Bremen.