On the devastating floods in central and eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change
B-10-2024-0060
on behalf of the ECR Group · Rapporteur: Waldemar Buda, Cristian Terheş, Daniel Obajtek, Marlena Maląg, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Michał Dworczyk, Mariusz Kamiński, Maciej Wąsik, Adam Bielan, Arkadiusz Mularczyk, Piotr Müller, Jacek Ozdoba, Alexandr Vondra, Małgorzata Gosiewska, Veronika Vrecionová, Gheorghe Piperea, Georgiana Teodorescu, AdrianGeorge Axinia, ClaudiuRichard Târziu, ŞerbanDimitrie Sturdza, Ondřej Krutílek, Joachim Stanisław Brudziński, Beata Szydło, Anna Zalewska, Patryk Jaki, Tobiasz Bocheński, Bogdan Rzońca, Kosma Złotowski, Ivaylo Valchev
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This resolution expresses solidarity with flood victims in central and eastern Europe and calls for EU action on disaster preparedness, funding, and prevention.¶¶¶ It demands non-repayable aid, additional agricultural funding, and a new EU instrument for weather-related compensation, plus fairer CAP distribution.¶¶ It urges stronger EU investment in resilience, support for volunteer firefighters, and faster EUSF mobilization, including an emergency funding line.¶¶¶ It calls for more anti-flood infrastructure, streamlined approval procedures, and extending the EUSF to cover new construction.¶¶¶ It also insists on cancelling Strasbourg plenary sessions for 12 months to fund flood victims.¶
Key points
- Expresses sympathy and solidarity with victims and commends emergency services and volunteers for their efforts.¶¶
- Calls on Member States to support volunteer fire departments and for EU training and equipment programmes.¶
- Stresses the need to strengthen EU collective response to extreme weather through civil protection measures.¶
- Demands that aid for flood victims be non-repayable grants and that affected regions receive maximum non-repayable aid.¶
- Calls on the Commission to provide additional ad hoc financial assistance from the agricultural reserve and increase national support thresholds.¶
- Calls for a separate EU instrument for financing compensation for weather effects in agriculture, outside the CAP budget.¶
- Calls for fairer CAP support distribution and expresses concern about farmers abandoning farms due to natural disasters.¶
- Supports strengthening EU investments in resilience and encourages synergies in disaster resilience projects.¶
- Calls for guaranteed disaster prevention and preparedness investments, focusing on risk reduction.¶
- Underlines the role of rescEU and the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, and calls for deeper cooperation through joint training and expansion.¶
- Insists that cohesion policy should support less developed regions and address natural disaster challenges, with shared management.¶¶
- Calls for cancelling Strasbourg plenary sessions for 12 months and allocating the savings to flood victims.¶
Who is affected
- Flood victims and affected communities in Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia.¶
- Volunteer fire departments and emergency services, which would receive more EU support.¶
- Farmers in less developed regions, who would benefit from additional aid and a new compensation instrument.¶¶¶
- Less developed regions, which would receive technical and financial support for disaster preparedness.¶
- EU institutions, including the Commission and Parliament, which would implement new funding and procedures.¶¶¶
Figures and deadlines
- 12 consecutive months of cancelled Strasbourg plenary sessions, with savings allocated to flood victims.¶