06:17 23 May

At 11:00 meeting of the CDM with a first package of measures

The government is ready to launch, at the meeting of the Council of Ministers scheduled today at 11 am, a first package of measures of 100 million for Emilia-Romagna hit by the flood.

It will be presented - the Minister of Business and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso anticipated yesterday - "a first support package within the Emergency Decree which, I hope, will provide for the suspension of mortgages, the installment of tax burdens and above all the activation of the Guarantee Fund which in our opinion should be the maximum that is allowed by European rules on State aid. This will be a first package of interventions, then later when an effective census is made of the sectors and areas and companies most affected we will be able to intervene with more appropriate and targeted measures".

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00:01 23 May

Tajani: 400 million could come from the European fund

"Everything we can do we must do and we have already asked for EU intervention", said Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani, speaking yesterday to "Quarta Repubblica", speaking about the resources for the territories of Emilia Romagna affected by the flood. "There is a European Solidarity Fund, I believe that we could get to ask and about 300-400 million could come from Europe from the Solidarity Fund. Now we will count the damage, then Brussels will do the investigation and Parliament will vote". Instead "the PNR cannot be used for this", "but - he added - we will find other funds in the budget".

00:02 23 May

00:01 23 May

Red alert in Romagna even today, but the area is shrinking

Despite the improvement in the weather, the red alert in Emilia-Romagna has been renewed for today, even if the area is shrinking, given that for landslides in the Apennines the alert becomes orange. For today, neither further precipitation nor increases in river levels, currently slowly decreasing, are expected. However, critical red hydraulic conditions will remain in the plains of Bologna, Ravenna and Forlì, precisely because of the difficulty of disposing of water flooded by watercourses and weighing on the secondary network and reclamation.

00:15 23 May

The number of displaced people drops to 23 thousand

According to the latest update provided yesterday by the Emilia Romagna Region, the number of people who had to leave their homes due to the flood drops by over 3,200: at 12 noon yesterday there were 23,081, most, 16,445, in Ravenna, then 4,462 in the province of Forlì-Cesena and 2,174 in the Bologna area.