Brussels, 20/05/2015 (Agence Europe) - After a rather heated debate at the end of April, the European Parliament adopted a common resolution on Wednesday 20 May in Strasbourg by the EPP, S&D, ALDE and ECR (507 votes for, 115 against, with 37 abstentions) calling for further measures to prevent the spread of the Xylella fastidiosa bacterium destroying olive trees in Italy (see EUROPE 11306).
Xylella fastidiosa is an immediate and very dangerous threat to the production of certain crops in...