Brussels, 29/08/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Committee of Permanent Representatives of Member States with the EU (Coreper welcomed, on Thursday, the strategy sketched out by the European Commission (in its communication on Wednesday, see yesterday's EUROPE, p.6) to assist regions of Central Europe affected by bad weather and flooding this summer.
Germany and Austria - which have raised to € 25 billion and 5 billion respectively the estimates of the damage caused by the floods - welcomed the...