The are 27 member countries of the EU:
Countries: (I might be wrong! I typed this in a hurry.)
- Belgium
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Denmark
- Ireland
- Greece
- Portugal
- Spain
- Austria
- Finland
- Sweden
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Estonia
- Hungary
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Malta
- Poland
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Bulgaria
- Romania
- Croatia
Stay safe and Merry Christmas! :)
The more people that are migrating to urban areas (urbanization) needs more crops for the citizens which causes more people to grow crops and without crop rotating or methods to prevent soil degradation. More likely answer is that more industry grows in the urbanized areas and they have poor management of the soil which causes soil degradation<span />
To reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters
