
Europe Isn’t Helpless in the Face of Severe Floods
Catastrophic floods in Spain on Oct. 29 killed at least 229 people and caused billions of euros’ worth of damage. The hardest-hit region was Valencia, a wealthy, industrious province in the country’s northeast, where at least 221 people died—many of them carried away in their cars or drowned in underground garages.
A few days after the floods, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia visited the worst-affected parts of Valencia, alongside Spain’s Socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, and Valencia’s conservative regional president, Carlos Mazón. The delegation was pelted with mudballs and insults by citizens furious at what they saw as state negligence before, during, and after the disaster.… Seguir leyendo »