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.

The European Court of Auditors has announced that it is starting to audit the EU funding of the road network connecting the Member States and their regions. The auditors will look at whether the European Commission's actions and the funds allocated provide progress for Member States to timely network completion and better connectivity for citizens, the institution said.

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 eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, which was struck by a deadly earthquake last summer, is set to receive 1.3 million euros from the European Union's Solidarity Fund, according to a proposal by the EU's Regional Policy Commission.

The sum is part of a total 104 million euros that the Commission wants to disburse to four EU member-states that were hit by natural disasters in 2017.

The EU budget will pay more money to countries which have suffered from natural disasters. The agreement was reached at the permanent representatives-level in Brussels.

The European Parliament (EP) approved on Tuesday the allocation of EUR 6.4 M to Bulgaria for dealing with consequences of the harsh winter conditions in the beginning of the year, which caused floods in parts of the country.

Bulgaria will receive EUR 6.4 M from the EU Solidarity Fund to cope with damage caused by the snowfall, floods, and landslides which hit the country in the period January - February 2015.

The European Commission (EC) allocated on Thursday EUR 6.3 M from the EU Solidarity Fund to Bulgaria in order for the country to deal with the damages caused by the severe winter conditions in the beginning of the year.

The Commission decided to grant aid worth €16.2 million from the EU Solidarity Fund to Greece and Bulgaria following natural disasters that occurred in the winter of 2015. Greece suffered from wide-spread flooding affecting five of its regions, while considerable damage was caused in Bulgaria due to severe winter conditions.

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.