“Over the last few days, almost two million people have been exposed to flooding in Central and Eastern Europe”, said the European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, introducing a debate in the European Parliament on Wednesday 18 September.
The scale of the disaster is such that the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, preferred to remain in Hungary. The planned debate on the priorities of the Hungarian Presidency of the EU Council was thus replaced by a debate...