{"id":390020,"date":"2024-09-16T12:42:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T10:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/09\/16\/tempesta-boris-orban-eurodeputati\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T19:53:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T17:53:50","slug":"storm-boris-will-delay-orbans-clash-with-meps-in-strasbourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/09\/16\/storm-boris-will-delay-orbans-clash-with-meps-in-strasbourg\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Boris will delay Orb\u00e1n’s clash with MEPs in Strasbourg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The death toll of storm Boris<\/strong>, which has been battering Central and Eastern Europe<\/strong> since last week, rose to eight. The torrential rains<\/strong> have caused extensive damage in at least six EU member states,<\/strong> whose governments are scrambling to get people to safety and limit the damage. The EU’s civil protection mechanism<\/strong>, which chancelleries have to activate specifically, has not yet been activated in Brussels. Hungarian premier Viktor Orb\u00e1n<\/strong> canceled all institutional engagements, especially abroad,\u00a0and will thus skip the meeting\u00a0with MEPs <\/strong>in Strasbourg on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Since Storm Boris began raging in the Central European area on Thursday (Sept. 12), the wind and rain have not stopped. Large parts of Austria<\/strong>, Czechia<\/strong>, Poland<\/strong>, Romania<\/strong>, Slovakia<\/strong>, and Hungary<\/strong> were affected by extreme weather phenomena<\/strong> of high intensity – in some areas, for example in Czechia<\/a>, they have seen around three months\u2019 rainfall in just three days – while already thousands of residents have been displaced<\/strong> from their homes. As of Monday morning (Sept. 16), there were eight people\u00a0officially confirmed deaths,<\/strong> but this number is likely to increase in the coming hours, not least since at least another four<\/a>\u00a0are\u00a0still\u00a0missing in Czechia.<\/p>\n

The (re)elected chairwoman of the EU executive, Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong>, reported on X<\/a> that “the EU remains ready to help<\/strong>” states and communities affected by the floods. “At this stage, the EU Civil Protection Mechanism (of the EU, Ed.) has not been activated<\/strong>” as none of the countries affected requested, European Commission spokesperson Balazs Ujvari<\/strong> confirmed to Eunews. In contrast, four\u00a0(Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary) “have requested satellite images<\/strong> via Copernicus<\/strong>,” the European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA) Earth observation service, to assess the extent of damage and calibrate a response. Polish premier Donald Tusk<\/strong>, who is reportedly in the process of declaring a state of natural disaster<\/strong>, announced<\/a> that his minister of European Affairs “will apply for European aid.<\/strong>” However, to our knowledge, that request has not yet been formalized.<\/p>\n

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis<\/strong> was quick to link the events of the past few days to climate change<\/strong>: “We are again facing the effects of climate change,\u00a0which are increasingly present on the European continent<\/strong>, with dramatic consequences,” he said. He was echoed by the Greens’ co-leader in the European Parliament, Terry Reintke<\/strong>, who reiterated<\/a> that “extreme weather events are a growing threat<\/strong>,” warning that “we must act now” to prevent them from deteriorating.\u00a0Iratxe Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez<\/strong> of the Social Democrats (S&D)\u00a0announced<\/a> that she will call for a debate in the House<\/strong> during the ongoing plenary session in Strasbourg this week to discuss “the mobilization of the EU’s emergency responses<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

The most anticipated guest of this session, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n<\/strong>, will not be present\u00a0in Strasbourg<\/strong>. The Magyar leader announced<\/a>\u00a0that he has\u00a0canceled all international engagements<\/strong> scheduled for the coming days and will remain in Budapest<\/strong> to handle the emergency in person. In the\u00a0capital, the Danube<\/strong> is expected to rise to over 8.5 meters<\/strong> (the record is 8.91 meters in 2013). Orb\u00e1n was supposed to present the program of the Hungarian presidency<\/strong> of the Council to\u00a0MEPs during a debate that could have been particularly tense following, among other things, his peace missions<\/strong> around half the world and the issue of controversial facilitated visas”<\/a>issued to Russian and Belarusian citizens<\/strong>. In short, the face-to-face has\u00a0only been postponed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Affected countries have not yet formally activated the European civil protection, but are working to limit the damage from what many consider a climate change-related disaster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7876,"featured_media":389987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681,25712],"tags":[25835,28996,26164,28119,25755],"class_list":["post-390020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-general-news","tag-viktor-orban-en","tag-tempesta-boris-en","tag-change-climate-en","tag-mechanism-of-civil-protection-en","tag-news-parliament-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390020"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390456,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390020\/revisions\/390456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}