Brussels, 06/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - By Tuesday, virtually all countries participating in the EU Civil Protection Mechanism had responded to the aid requests issued on Sunday by the American government following the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana (New Orleans in particular, see Europe 9020). But the United States has not yet officially cleared the aid.
Twenty-one EU member states plus Romania and Norway have so far offered emergency assistance to the United States to...