CONCERNED MEPS ASK COMMISSION TO DO MORE TO STOP THE SPREAD OF ASF
October 1st, 2014
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s response to Europe’s African swine fever (ASF) crisis was criticised at the European Parliament yesterday (Tuesday Oct 7) for being too weak. The disease has brought about considerable economic damage to Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, members of the parliament’s agriculture and rural development committee warned in Brussels. “The Commission is not really on top of this danger”, the committee’s vice-chair and Polish conservative MEP Janusz Wojchiechozski suggested, branding Brussels actions thus far as “inadequate”. Since ...
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