The EU is sending help to Americans ...
Germany and the UK have already flown in more than 500,000 food rations.
France is flying tents, generators and water purifying plants from Martinique, and a Dutch frigate is taking medicine and helicopters to New Orleans.
Greece has offered two cruise ships to help house thousands of homeless people for several months.
Tiny Luxembourg has 1,000 camp beds and 2,000 blankets at the ready, and Sweden is providing equipment to restore mobile phone networks.
The aid is co-ordinated by a civil protection centre in the European Commission and by the UK, which currently holds the EU presidency.
Oana Lungescu BBC Brussels, "The US may not really need baby food from Italy or divers from Belgium, but its call for European and international help shows that, after the divisions over Iraq, it has now realised that even superpowers need friends."
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