Brussels, 28/08/2002 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday, the European Commission proposed that a new budgetary allocation of EUR 500 million to 1 billion should be set up in order to face up to the natural, technological or environmental disasters in the EU and also in candidate countries. It confirmed, moreover, that it was authorising the Member States concerned (Germany and Austria) to modify the Structural Fund programmes for measures relating to flooding and has adopted the regulation...