{"id":5594,"date":"2026-04-10T06:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/5594\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:37:06","slug":"italy-declares-state-of-emergency-in-four-regions-after-severe-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/5594\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy declares state of emergency in four regions after severe storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                        \u20ac50 million in emergency funds allocated to address storm damage in four regions in central and southern Italy.The Italian government has declared a 12-month state of emergency for Abruzzo, Basilicata, Molise and Puglia following the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wantedinrome.com\/news\/bridge-in-central-italy-collapses-amid-severe-storms.html\" title=\"severe storms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">severe storms<\/a>\u00a0and flooding that struck the four regions in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The government has allocated an initial \u20ac50 million in emergency funding to the regions, divided as follows: \u20ac15 million for Abruzzo, \u20ac5 million for Basilicata, \u20ac20 million for Molise and \u20ac10 million for Puglia.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken during a cabinet meeting at Palazzo Chigi on Thursday evening and was announced by civil protection minister Nello Musumeci.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The funds, drawn from Italy&#8217;s national emergency fund, are intended to finance initial assistance to those affected by storm damage and to restore public services and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Further measures will be implemented through ordinances issued by the head of the civil protection department in agreement with the regional authorities, news agency Adnkronos reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the case of Molise, the government appointed engineer Stefano Babini as extraordinary commissioner for reconstruction in the affected areas of the central Italian region.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Molise was among the regions hardest hit, with a massive landslide occuring in the area around Petacciato following heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The landslide led to the closure of the A14 motorway and state road 16 as well as causing severe disruption to train services on the Adriatic railway line.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo Vigili del Fuoco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u20ac50 million in emergency funds allocated to address storm damage in four regions in central and southern Italy.The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4245,5,4246,4247,4244,2125],"class_list":["post-5594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-italy","tag-four-regions","tag-italy","tag-landslide","tag-petacciato","tag-state-of-emergency","tag-storms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}