Minister for Regional Development advocates flood fund

The Minister for Regional Development Radko Martinek said on Sunday that the state should help people living in flood-risk areas by buying up their property from a state fund or providing them with a state owned patch of land elsewhere. Martinek pointed out that many of these homes are now virtually impossible to sell and that people living in them feel trapped. The minister is in favour of establishing a special flood fund which would cover the cost of such a project. People who refused to move to safe ground would not in future be eligible for flood support from the government, Martinek said.