We’ve already heard a great deal about the way in which the BBC and other European media have seemed to be gloating over the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Well, now there’s this, reported by the England Expects blog:

“Last weekend there was some very heavy rain in Brussels, one of the most chi-chi suburbs suffered a little local flooding.

This is how this event was written up by Dennis Mc Gowan in the editorial of Commission en Direct, the bureaurocrats own inhouse weekly newsrag.

“Last weekend, a number of colleagues were affected first hand by the very heavy rain which resulted in sudden flooding in various suburbs of Brussels, particularly Woluwe St Lambert. It gave some impression of what those in New Orleans experienced some weeks before.”