On Friday 20 December, the European Commission announced that it had paid an amount of €392.2 million from the EU Solidarity Fund to help Italy, France and Austria recover from the damage caused by last year’s devastating floods.
€351.9 million has been paid to Italy following flooding in the Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany regions, €35 million to France for the floods in Nord-Pas-de-Calais and €5.2 million to Austria for floods in the south of the country (see EUROPE 13533/11).
The Commission has paid €284.1 million to Emilia-Romagna, in addition to the €94.7 million already paid to Italy (advances in November 2023). This brings the total amount of EU support for the region to €378.8 million. Tuscany received €67.8 million to remedy the consequences of a regional flooding disaster that affected particularly the provinces of Prato, Florence, Pisa, Pistoia, and Livorno.
The disbursements made, added to last year's advances, bring the Fund’s support for Italy to €446.6 million. (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)