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The Commission proposes to mobilise the European Solidarity Fund in favour of France.
The Interinstitutional Agreement allows the mobilisation of this Fund within the annual ceiling of EUR 1 billion. During 2008 a global amount of EUR 260 411 197 has been mobilised in favour of the United Kingdom (EUR 162 387 985), Greece (EUR 89 769 009) and Slovenia (EUR 8 254 203).
France applied for assistance from the Fund following hurricane Dean which affected Martinique and Guadeloupe in August 2007. The Commission proposes to mobilise the EU Solidarity Fund for a total amount of EUR 12 780 000, to be allocated from appropriations not used in the Cohesion Fund.
However, as in previous cases, there is at least one obvious question that must be asked: how can it be that it is only now, more than one year after the disaster affected the populations, that EU funding is being made available? There can be no doubt that something is not right …
It should be noted that we presented proposals aimed at speeding up the procedures for mobilising this Fund and ensuring that regional disasters were still eligible. These proposals also aimed to acknowledge the specific nature of natural disasters in the Mediterranean region, such as drought and fire, within this Fund."@en1
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