WHILE the US embassy announced that USAID had approved their request for $50 000 to aid recent flood victims, the outgoing Bulgarian Government asked the EU for 75 million euro from their solidarity fund.
In a letter to the European Commission, outgoing Finance Minister Milen Velchev asked for the aid and presented Government estimates of flood damages.
According to the report, two million people have been affected by the floods, 6300 buildings had been flooded, while 52 bridges, 420 streets and 35 km of railways had been damaged.
The damages, excluding agricultural losses, have been appraised at 75 million euro but it was up to the EC to decide whether and how much money to provide.
According to estimates from the Civil Protection Agency (CPA), 120 bridges, more than 53 000 houses and about 300 000 decares of crops had been destroyed since the season's first floods in May.
Recent floods have also taken two human lives. A man drowned in the village of Draginovo, Velingrad region. Another man was crushed by a tree uprooted by the storm near Kazanluk, which also flooded parts of the town of Kalofer, including its museum of Hristo Botev.
Following torrential rains and thunderstorms on the night of July 11, the levels of the Yantra River and its tributaries in the Gabrovo region rose by two metres, the CPA said.
The Hristo Smirnenski dam, which supplies Gabrovo with water, overflowed by 40 cm.
Outside town, in the direction of Veliko Turnovo, the Yantra burst its banks.
Workshops at the open air Etura Architectural and Ethnographic Complex near Gabrovo were flooded by the Panicharska River, a tributary of the Yantra.
Transport communications between five villages and suburbs of Gabrovo were disrupted by landslides, the CPA said.
Ground floors of houses were flooded and the waters carried away some ramshackle houses along the riverbanks but their inhabitants were evacuated on time.
The torrential rains in the night of July 13 aggravated the situation in Central and Northeastern Bulgaria and closed several roads.
A freight train derailed near the village of Shivachevo, near Sliven, and closed the Subbalkan railway for several hours.
The Tundja River in the Stara Zagora region kept on overflowing and on Wednesday night flooded three villages and damaged three bridges. 
According to weather forecasts, rain was expected to continue until Friday.