European Union Solidarity Fund

The European Union has decided to mobilize the European Union Solidarity Fund to provide assistance to Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Greece and France, relating to six natural disasters that occurred in 2023.

Greece will receive €101.53 million from the EU’s Solidarity Fund to address the destruction caused by Storm “Daniel,” following a decision by the Council of Ministers.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila and Cabinet members decided on Tuesday, at an operative meeting convened at the Government House, the measures necessary to support the people and the communities affected by the latest floods.

The southeastern Aegean island of Kos will receive aid amounting to 2.5 million euros after the European Commission proposed the disbursement of funds totaling 34 million euros from the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) to help member-states Greece, Poland, Lithuania and Bulgaria that were struck by natural disasters in 2017.

The European Parliament on Tuesday approved the allocation of EUR 1.9 M in flood relief under the European Union Solidarity Fund.

Bulgaria was affected last year by flash floods which claimed more than a dozen lives and left hundreds of houses damaged or destroyed.

The European Parliament's Committee on Budgets (BUDG) has approved financial aid of EUR 1.98 M for urgent recovery activities necessitated by the floods in 2014 in Bulgaria.

Bulgaria will get 6% of the requested EUR 300 M under the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF), or some EUR 10.5 M, according to Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova.

Pavlova gave a joint press conference with Sports Minister Krasen Kralev and Varna Mayor Ivan Portnih in Varna on Thursday.

Bulgaria has applied for assistance under the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) for coping with the flood damage in the northwestern regions of Vidin and Vratsa.

Bulgaria's northwestern region suffered flood damage worth EUR 77.5 M in the period July 31 - August 2, 2014, according to the press office of the Ministry of Regional Development.

BRUSSELS - Serbia can count on EUR 1 billion worth of aid from the European Union Solidarity Fund in dealing with the long-term consequences of the catastrophic floods, Kristalina Georgieva, the European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, said on Monday.