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Regional and Urban Policy
The EUSF aid was used for:
Regional and Urban Policy
05/2005
07/2014 01/2015
06/201408/2005 Floods€10.5 million
Floods€9.7 million
Floods€2 million
Severe winter conditions€6.4 million
Floods€10.6 million
The EUSF aid was used for:
During the spring of 2005 Bulgaria was hit by severe floods caused by torrential rains. Nearly two-thirds of the country's territory and 3.2 million inhabitants were affected by the heavy rainfalls.
▶ Supplyingessential goods to559 towns andvillages
▶ Restoring electricity▶ Search and rescueoperations.
▶ Repair of road and railinfrastructure, clean-upoperations and reinforcement offlood protection infrastructure.
€41.4 million
BULGARIA The European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) was created after the severe floods in Central Europe in the summer of 2002. Since then, it intervened following 80 disasters covering a range of different catastrophic events including floods, forest fires, earthquakes, storms and drought. 24 different European countries have been supported so far with a total amount of over €5.2 billion.
Following the Commission's proposal, Bulgaria will receive €2.2 million from the EUSF due to the floods that hit the south-eastern part of Bulgaria in October 2017.
Bulgaria has previously received EUSF funding on 5 occasions:
Total aid granted
Burgas
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