2 minutes ago400m euros EU offers flood damage in Slovenia
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)The EU will provide 400m euros in financial assistance to Slovenia, which has been affected by devastating floods, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced today. “We will allocate 400m euros from the Solidarity Fund, 100m this year and 300m next year”, von der Leyen told reporters [...]
“We will allocate 400m euros from the Solidarity Fund, 100m this year and 300m next year”, von der Leyen told reporters after visiting areas affected in Slovenia.
The Slovenian government will also be able to withdraw 2.7 billion euros of financial assistance from the EU's future Generatium Fund and redirect 3.3 billion euros from the Cohesion Fund.
Tens of thousands of homes have been flooded and now tens of thousands of families in despair are asking how they will survive in the coming weeks and months,” said Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob.
He spoke a few days ago of the worst natural disaster “of the last 30 years in the country, as heavy rain turned some of the territory into an endless lake.
