Cem Özdemir, Germany’s Minister of Agriculture, expressed his confidence, on Monday 27 January, at the Council of European Agriculture Ministers regarding measures to combat the spread of foot-and-mouth disease in Germany, following the outbreak of the disease in Brandenburg on 10 January.
“We don’t know how this outbreak came about”, said the German minister, who stressed that there had been no other cases of foot-and-mouth disease. Animals were slaughtered within a one-kilometre...