Press Release: Council adopts new rules for EU solidarity fund

The Council of the European Union on 6 May 2014 at the Economic and Financial Affairs meeting in Brussels approved a draft regulation aimed at making the EU solidarity fund more responsive and simpler to use.

The EU solidarity fund's purpose is to provide financial assistance in the event of natural disasters and express European solidarity to disaster-stricken regions within Europe. The regulation adopted confirms this principle, but enables the EU solidarity fund to react much quicker than under the current rules.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Council gives green light to new rules for EU solidarity fund http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-council-gives-green-light-to-new-rules-for-eu-solidarity-fund/

ESO: Background information: Q&A on the reform of the European Union Solidarity Fund http://www.europeansources.info/record/memo-qa-on-the-reform-of-the-european-union-solidarity-fund/

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