2571210 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.thelocal.de/20210718/germany-questions-warning-system-after-flood-catastrophe/Although meteorological services had forecast torrential rain and flash floods for western Germany last week, many residents said they were caught off-guard by rapidly rising waters that destroyed roads, bridges and homes. “We shouldn’t be mourning this many fatalities in 2021,” Hannah Cloke, a....2021-07-19T00:35+0200thelocal-de-8356217c2cee3723e99b3f6830931e8d20210719003500https://www.archyde.com/germany-questions-warning-system-after-flood-catastrophe/Although meteorological services had forecast torrential rain and flash floods for western Germany last week, many residents said they were caught off-guard by rapidly rising waters that destroyed roads, bridges and homes. “We shouldn’t be mourning this many fatalities in 2021,” Hannah Cloke, a....2021-07-19T00:17+0200archyde-ebc1a7bb0c7bf37577a84a583620651c20210719001700https://www.fijitimes.com/germanys-floods-cover-livelihoods-in-sludge/BAD NEUENAHR-AHRWEILER, Germany, July 17 (Reuters) – Business owners in a town badly hit by the record flooding in Germany struggled on Saturday to pick up the pieces after their livelihoods – from old books to wine – were swept away or caked in sludge.2021-07-19T00:12+0200fijitimes-501d57177276e95cb5ac78848bad1b4120210719001200https://www.urdupoint.com/en/miscellaneous/germany-questions-warning-system-after-deadly-1305936.htmlBad NeuenahrAhrweiler, Germany, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Jul, 2021 ) :As mourns more than 150 people who died in floods and begins a mammoth clean-up task, questions are mounting about whether the country's weather warning system failed to keep citizens safe.2021-07-19T00:02+0200urdupoint-cf0f2cdc372716248aa709ca4eaf6a0720210719000200