Losses caused by floods devastating southern Poland will run into billions, Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said.

Soldiers and volunteers in southwestern Poland have been laying sandbags near swollen rivers around Wroclaw. Days of flooding have wreaked death and destruction across Central Europe.

Poland will ask the European Commission to adjust its recommendations for budget deficit cuts in the coming years due to rebuilding costs after floods hit the country’s southwest, Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski said.

"So I think that this amount, these 5 billion euros for Poland is an adequate amount. It does not mean at all that it is an amount sufficient to cover all the losses." Poland, which forecasts its general government deficit at 5.