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In Brief

Period covered by this Final Report: 7 July 2005 to 28 February, 2006.

History of this Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF)-funded operation:

- CHF 240,938 allocated from the Federations DREF on 7 July, 2005 to respond to the needs of this operation, or to replenish disaster preparedness stocks distributed to the affected population.

PARIS, April 17, 2006 (AFP) - A timeline of flooding in Europe since the turn of the century:
2000: In April, Hungary and Romania suffer some of their worst flooding since records began. At least 10 people die.

In October, northern Italy, Switzerland and parts of France, Spain, Britain and Ireland are hit by a series of storms and floods that kill at least 52 people and cause billions of dollars (euros) in damage.

August 2002: Large parts of Germany and central Europe suffer their worst flooding in a century, killing an estimated

50 million of these 274 million will come from Solidarity Fund. The difference of 224 million will be allotted for eligible projects within PHARE, ISPA and SAPARD programs.

On the request of Prime Minister Calin Popescu - Tariceanu, the Minister delegate in charge to the implementation of internationally financed programs and the Supervision of the enforcement of the Acquis Communautaire, Mr. Cristian David will present an informative document on the eligible projects on PHARE, ISPA and SAPARD programs. This document is to be made public further to its drafting.

This Christmas, Maria Ivonaru and her family will again sleep in their own home, after torrential floods swept across Europe this summer, hitting her native Romania the hardest.

Habitat for Humanity's flood-relief programme in Romania is in full swing, as the organization strives to shelter affected families from the country's bitter winter. With 43 homes completed and 156 in the works, Habitat's first disaster-response project in Europe is right on target, scheduled to complete in early spring 2006.

The project will have assisted 199 families

IP/05/1385
Brussels, 08 November - Regional policy Commissioner, Danuta Hübner, has announced that Romania will receive fast-track support of more than € 49 million to help repair rail and roads damaged by floods. The European Commission decided to offer this aid to Romania through the ISPA programme (Pre-Accession Instrument for Structural Policies), which helps candidate countries prepare to become members to the European Union. The money will be used for the reconstruction of railways and roads in Romania damaged and destroyed during the floods in July and August.

Author: Emergency News
SALVATION Army emergency workers in Romania, eastern Europe, are providing aid to hundreds of people whose homes and livelihoods have been destroyed by repeated floods. The country has been hit by six bouts of flooding this year, starting in April and continuing into September. Eight people died in the most recent flooding, which primarily affected the south-east of the country, bringing to 70 the total number of deaths since the start of 2005 in the worst floods the country has seen for 30 years.

A Salvation Army emergency assessment

The situation is under control and the population of Ialomita county does not run anymore the risk of being flooded as the flash flood passed, without producing damage to Slobozia locality, Prime Minister Calin Popescu -Tariceanu has stated further to the meeting of the National Committee for Emergencies.

"The population in the area does not run the risk of being flooded. The good cooperation between the central and local authorities, the efficient rally and the preventive measures that have been taken so far have proved their efficiency", the Prime Minister has stated.

BEI/05/84
Bucharest/Luxembourg, 27 September 2005 - In response to the catastrophic floods that hit Romania during the summer 2005 the European Investment Bank (EIB) is considering to put in place in close co-ordination with the Romanian Administration an emergency programme in an amount of up to EUR 600 million for the financing of the necessary measures to repair and upgrade the damaged road and rail infrastructure of the country.

During the floods, which started in April/May 2005, infrastructure in some areas in Banat was affected. The July floods

The measures taken on site and in the floods affected areas have aimed firstly at consolidating the protection works against floods, Mr. Anghel Andreescu, the State Secretary within the Ministry of Administration and Interior has stated today.

He stated that there was maintained the alert level 2 at the level of the troops of gendarmes, frontier police, Inspectorate for Emergencies - namely all the teams are present in their units - in three counties: Ilfov, Ialomita and Constanta. There is instituted the alert level 1 in four counties: Tulcea, Braila, Calarasi, Prahova and