The EU Solidarity Fund - EUSF - was established in 2002 following severe floods in Central Europe.Between 2002 and 2018, the EUSF mobilised a total of over EUR 5.5 billion for interventions in 87 disaster events. Italy is by far the biggest beneficiary of the Fund with almost 2.8 billion received so far.

The 2014-2020 ERDF and Cohesion Fund programmes saw reinforced use of common indicators to measure investment outputs. How does the system work?