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"Mr President, thank you for commemorating the recent natural and other disasters. I would like now to address the floods affecting central Europe. Several tens of thousands of people have been affected by the rivers bursting their banks and the huge volume of rainfall in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. The situation is without doubt worst in Romania: following the spring floods, it has suffered catastrophic damage in July and August. The floods, covering 34 counties and claiming many lives, have left 575 settlements, homes, several hundred kilometres of motorway, 83 schools, 29 nursery schools, hospitals and churches under water. The financial cost of the damage caused as a result of the natural disasters affecting Romania amounts to EUR 1.5 billion.
On behalf of the Hungarian delegation, it is our moral duty to use every means at our disposal to support the region’s inhabitants. Romania – the poorest of the countries affected – cannot cover the enormous costs of reconstruction out of its own resources. It therefore needs to receive assistance as soon as possible from the European Union Solidarity Fund to be able to carry out salvage operations. I request your kind support in this matter."@en1
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