Brussels, 09/10/2009 (Agence Europe) - With the adoption on Thursday 8 October of the report by Reimer Böge on releasing an allocation from the EU Solidarity Fund in 2009, the European Parliament has approved payment of €493,771,159 in financial support for Italy, which called for intervention from the fund after the Abruzzo region was hit by an earthquake in April 2009. The earthquake claimed 300 lives and caused considerable damage.
According to an estimate by the relevant European...