The European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) enables the EU to provide effective support to a Member State, a country involved in accession negotiations, or a region in its efforts to deal with the effects of a major natural disaster. The EUSF was created as a reaction to the severe floods in Central Europe in the summer of 2002. Since then, it has provided financial support to 29 countries to help them recover from severe natural disasters, such as floods, forest fires, earthquakes, storms, and drought.
Assistance from the EUSF takes the form of a grant to supplement public spending by the beneficiary state and is intended to finance essential emergency and recovery measures to alleviate damage which, in principle, is non-insurable. Urgent measures eligible for funding are:
Devastating floods, the worst in the country’s recent history, hit Slovenia in August 2023. Slovenia prepared the application for a financial contribution from the EUSF for financing essential and recovery operations following the August 2023 floods and submitted it to the Commission on 20 October 2023. The country also requested the payment of an advance from the Fund. Based on the estimated damage, the country expects to receive a total of EUR 428 billion in financial support from the EUSF.
At the end of 2023, Slovenia received an advance payment of EUR 100 million on the basis of the Commission implementing decision of 23 November 2023 awarding an advance payment from the EUSF for funding essential and recovery operations following the August 2023 floods in Slovenia. The Commission will disburse the remainder of the financial aid once its proposal is approved by the Parliament and the Council, presumably in the second half of 2024.
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