Remember Germany's Flooding in August 2002

I quote from this link, titled 'FLOODED EUROPE FORVER CHANGED' There are many other similar ones with pictures of then EU Commission President Prodi rushing to pledge aid:

On Sunday, the European Commission agreed on an aid package at a crisis meeting in Berlin called by Chancellor Schroeder and attended by leaders from Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, and Commission President Romano Prodi.

President Prodi said the European Investment Bank would offer flooded countries millions of euros in loans. "This is a moment in which we have to show that true European solidarity exists," he said.

No exact figure has been put on the value of the package yet, but Germany is expected to receive some five billion euros.