1 Amendments of André ELISSEN related to 2018/2078(BUD)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the urgent need to release financial assistance through the European Union Solidarity Fund ('the Fund') to the regions affected by the natural disasters and regrets the number of lives lost in natural disasters in the Union in 2017Although we sympathize with the victims of these natural disasters and regret the number of lives lost in natural disasters in the Union in 2017, we believe that countries should in principle take care of the consequences of such disasters and that the European Union Solidarity Fund ( "the fund") is superfluous and must be eliminated;