30/08/2002 (Agence Europe) - Bavarian Minister for European Affairs Reinhold Bocklet has welcomed the Commission's proposal to create a disaster relief fund in the Community budget. A simple reshuffling of credits earmarked for the structural policies is not enough, noted Mr Bocklet in a press release. He also commented that the creation of a disaster fund "should not lead to an overall increase in the EU budget", and that such a fund could only be used in "extreme" cases such as the present...