Press Release: Germany, Denmark Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Austria and Croatia offer 2.12Million sand bags to Hungary to cope with floods

As a response to the Hungarian activation of the EU Civil protection mechanism, Germany offered on 26 May 2010 1 270 010 sand bags to increase its flood containment capacity of the country. The Czech Republic offered 100 000 additional sand bags, the same amount offered by the Netherlands and Croatia Austria offered 250 000 and last but not least, Denmark also offered 300.000 additional bags. The combined offers of these five countries(2.12 Million bags) go beyond the to 2 million sand bags that Hungary requested on 25 May when it activated the EU Civil Protection Mechanism. At this point in time, the Hungarian authorities have already accepted the offer of the Netherlands and are considering the others