Germany: No long range SAR, no readiness for any fixed wing aircraft.
Purely Sea Kings Mk41 @ 15 mins during day time and 60 mins during night time. Almost always faster than that, around 5-10 mins with the sun out and around 20-30 mins at night, depending on the mission (evac from an island or people in the water. With the ferry on fire in 2011 (Lisco Glora) I believe they were out of their beds and airborne within around 10 mins.
As with the difference between Italy and the US:
As I understand it from the Coast Guard SAR course the always launch a C-130 when a help goes out for more than a few miles.
Pretty sure the Italiens donīt but use it on an irregular basis, for those rare long range missions.
That might explain the 2 hours.
Tom