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@NaomiOhReally
Jul 15, 2021 • 18 tweets • 13 min read • Read on X
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Dramatic scenes of flooding around Europe have underscored the stakes as the EU launches plans to tackle climate change; trending under #hochwasser #inondations #overstroming
Water bursts through a drain in the Belgian town of Spa: photo François Walschaerts/AFP Image
A caravan is carried away in Rech, Germany #hochwasser #inondations #overstroming
Emergency responders struggle against the force of the floods in the district of Aachen
A car is carried away in Theux in the Liège province of Belgium, in this video by Laurent Klein
The Rhineland towns of Bad Neuenahr and Dernau in Germany lie submerged in these photographs shared by @DavSauer ImageImage
An underpass in Cologne, by Marius Becker / dpa Image
Before/after photo of a street in Pepinster, Belgium, where local media report a dozen homes have collapsed and residents were awaiting rescue on their roofs as floods reached as high as four metres
Hotel guests are evacuated by a digger in Valkenburg in the Netherlands, via @MauriceDeHeus #hochwasser #inondations #overstroming

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Flooding causes Germany's worst mass loss of life in years with 19 dead, dozens missing as heavy rain causes houses to collapse irishtimes.com/news/world/eur…
Residents struggle in the flood waters in Liège, Belgium, in this photo by @BrunoFahy #hochwasser #inondations #overstroming Image
Acting mayor Christine Defraigne of the Belgian city of Liège, where the Meuse river threatens to burst its banks, recommends to @lesoir that those able to leave the city calmly do so, and otherwise move to the first or second floor lesoir.be/384170/article…
Cars piled up by the floods in the Belgian city of Verviers #hochwasser #inondations #overstroming Image
A shocking image of the flooded parish of Altenburg, Altenahr shared by regional authorities in Germany, which says at least four people are dead and 30 are missing.
Here is how the area looked in better times. #hochwasser #inondations #overstromingen
mdi.rlp.de/de/service/pre… ImageImage
Belgian journalist Anne-Catherine Croufer pauses her reporting for public broadcaster RTBF to help evacuate Liège residents with her surfboard
The scene during the night in Valkenburg in the southern Netherlands; 12,000 people have been evacuated in the region
Photos of the aftermath in Rech, shared by a local community Facebook page.
German authorities say the death toll is now 81, with 1,300 people missing in the region of Rhineland-Palatinate m.facebook.com/story.php?stor… ImageImageImage
A house began to collapse in the background as @HLN_BE interviewed the local mayor in flooded Pepinster in Belgium; people could be seen scrambling out from the roof #belgiumfloods hln.be/video/producti…
A dike has broken in the southern Netherlands, forcing the sudden evacuation of thousands of people from villages and towns.
Here, two women try to get their animals out of the evacuation zone in Voulwames, Limburg

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A story I’ve been working on for a while is out.
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She had no mandate to visit Israel from the member states.
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This does not reflect the EU position.
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Croatia becomes the 20th country to join the euro today.
These are the Croatian Euro coins that are now coming into circulation and being given as change in Croatian shops as the country says goodbye to the Kuna
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Ireland has one of the highest levels of public sympathy towards Ukrainians of any EU country, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey - the numbers of those saying they aren't sympathetic are small enough to be a statistical error
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The embassies of Ireland and Ukraine to the EU this week jointly hosted the European premiere of this film, which features ordinary women in Ukraine – train conductors, paramedics, war crimes investigators – holding the fabric of the country together irishtimes.com/world/europe/2…
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