While MEPs welcomed on Tuesday 16 April in Strasbourg the European Union's humanitarian aid to the victims of Cyclone Idai, which devastated Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, many called for much more to be done given the scale of the disaster, some even calling European aid a “drop in the ocean”.
The Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, Christos Stylianides, recalled that the EU had “reacted only a few hours after the cyclone by freeing up €3.5 million for...