None of this is our advice. Every line below belongs to a named national authority, is shown in their terms, and links to the page we took it from. Where we have not yet captured what a government says, the entry says so and names them anyway — because knowing who speaks for you in an emergency is itself worth knowing.
Dirección General de Protección Civil y Emergencias (DGPCE)ES-Alert
Keep a kit by the door with water for three days at a litre and a half per person per day, tinned food, a torch, a radio, a first-aid kit, your documents, a phone charger and cash.
Protección Civil — household preparedness campaign relaunched November 2025
For these countries we know who warns you and what the system is called. We have not yet read their household guidance carefully enough to relay it, so we are not going to paraphrase it. Each figure below is the EU baseline, not that country’s own number, and is labelled as such.
Hätäkeskuslaitos & Pelastustoimi
Vaaratiedote
2 L per person per day — EU baseline, not Finland’s own figure
Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe (BBK)
MoWaS / NINA
2 L per person per day — EU baseline, not Germany’s own figure
Dipartimento della Protezione Civile (DPC)
IT-alert
2 L per person per day — EU baseline, not Italy’s own figure
Rządowe Centrum Bezpieczeństwa (RCB)
Alert RCB
2 L per person per day — EU baseline, not Poland’s own figure
Ministerstvo vnútra SR — sekcia krízového riadenia
SK-Alert
2 L per person per day — EU baseline, not Slovakia’s own figure
Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap (MSB)
Krisinformation.se / VMA
2 L per person per day — EU baseline, not Sweden’s own figure
Looking for what your country’s warning system actually is, and whether anyone can read it? That is on By country. Every source we use is listed on Sources.