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#Coronavirus - Commission receives first preliminary application for support from the EU Solidarity Fund for health emergency from Italy

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The European Commission received its first preliminary application for financial support from the EU Solidarity Fund from Italy, to address the coronavirus outbreak and its effects. Italy is expected to submit further details in the weeks to come.

Since 1 April 2020, following the Commission's proposal for a Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative, EU member states can apply for support from the EU Solidarity Fund for health emergency reasons.

Cohesion and Reforms Commissioner Elisa Ferreira said: "Italy is currently the member state that is hardest-hit by the coronavirus crisis, and is the first country to apply for help from the EU Solidarity Fund in this context. Thanks to its extended scope, now also including public health emergencies, the Fund is part of the tools the Commission has rapidly put in place to alleviate the burden on member states' budgets, as a concrete demonstration of European solidarity in these difficult times."

The European Commission will collect all coronavirus-related applications until 24 June 2020 and then assess them in a package in order to ensure an equitable treatment of all cases. It will then submit a proposal for financial aid to the European Parliament and the Council. More information is available in this press release.

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