This report has been compiled as part of the STAR-FLOOD project, a European FP7 project focused on flood risk governance. The project investigates strategies for dealing with flood risks in 18 vulnerable urban regions in six European countries: Belgium, The UK (more precisely: England and Scotland), France, The Netherlands, Poland and Sweden. The report highlights the main similarities and differences between the six STAR-FLOOD consortium countries, complemented with some interesting examples from other European countries. Amongst other things, the report discusses the Flood Risk Management Strategies and Flood Risk Governance Arrangements that are in place. The report intends to contribute to an extended problem analysis of flood risk governance in Europe. STAR-FLOOD researchers in each country wrote a text on the situation in their country (included in the annex). Based on this input, eight salient themes have been identified according to which the countries seem to differ: i) The countries’ baseline situation in terms of their actual flood experiences (chapter 2); ii) Designated competent authorities and the actual competences that actors have for implementing Flood Risk Management Strategies (chapter 3); iii) Resources for flood risk governance: the financing arrangements that are in place (chapter 4); iv) The degree and ways in which integration between water management and spatial planning is taking place (chapter 5); v) The extent to which stakeholder involvement takes place and the ways in which it is done (chapter 6); vi) The substantive and procedural norms and goals that are in place (chapter 7); vii) The way in which discourses on flood management have evolved in each of the consortium countries and how this relates to discourses on flood management more generally (chapter 8). viii) The Flood Risk Management Strategies that are actually in place (chapter 9); The findings suggest mutual influences (but not necessarily causal relations) between experiences with floods (item i), the institutional ...