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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7781

19 August 2000
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture

18/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission is to provide 1.75 million euro in aid to Germany to contribute to refunding the country's spending to eradicate the swine fever epidemic that broke out on its territory in 1997. This is the third and last part of the aid (Germany has already received 7 million euro). At the time when the swine fever epidemic that is affecting England has led the Commission to slap a temporary ban on the export of live pigs from this part of the United...