Press Release: EU Solidarity Fund to pay nearly EUR 15 million to support Austria in dealing with flooding disaster in 2005

Danuta Hübner, European Commissioner for Regional Policy and the Solidarity Fund, and Austrian Interior Minister Liese Prokop signed an agreement to pay € 14 798 589 to Austria to reimburse emergency costs incurred after the severe flooding that hit the Austria's western Länder Vorarlberg and Tyrol at the end of August 2005. The grant is being made available through the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF). It will reimburse public funds spent on the immediate emergency response, in particular on the restoration of transport infrastructures and protective river engineering in the affected area.