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- cross-posted to:
- globalnews@lemmy.zip
Severe flooding caused by heavy rainfall has inundated Voeren and Liège in Belgium, as well as parts of France and Germany.
The municipality of Voeren in Limburg has been severely impacted by heavy rainfall, causing extensive flooding in the area. Streets are submerged, houses inundated, and the local disaster plan has been enacted to manage the emergency.
“This is worse than in 2021,” stated Mayor Joris Gaens, referring to the devastating floods that hit Voeren and the province of Liège three years ago. Emergency shelters have been set up for those affected.
“Northern Europe” but Belgium/France/Germany. Welp, I guess the Nordics don’t exist.
To be fair though, there are also about to be some severe floods in Lapland quite soon, albeit for a completely different reason: exceptionally warm spring weather melts the snow faster than usual causing rivers to flood.
First time that Liège has ever been described as Northern in basically any context. It’s in Southeastern Belgium in Western Europe.
“Belgium is in Northern Europe” sounds like something ChatGPT would hallucinate. Or it’s bait to drive engagement.
You’d think that euronews, a European news org, would know the difference.
Nothing about Lapland in this article 🤷
I came to ask if Belgium was Northern Europe what are the Nordic countries called? I am from the states and cannot find most European countries on a map.
The Northern Europe.
Because Belgium and the other countries mentioned are not in Northern Europe.
At best they can be said to be in the north of continental europe, and even there you got people who would argue that term includes Scandinavia and you are back to square one.