Failure of Brussels strategy made farm crisis a disaster FOOT AND MOUTH INQUIRY

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: May 5, 2002| Author: CHRISTOPHER BOOKER | Copyright information

Documents that have come to light only thanks to the European Parliament's inquiry into last year's multi-billion-pound foot and mouth disaster reveal that it represented a far more extensive failure of Government than has hitherto been supposed.

A report to be presented to the inquiry tomorrow by a British MEP shows that, had it not been for the total breakdown of a strategy for the handling of foot and mouth outbreaks by the European Commission, more than nine million animals might h...

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