12/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - The fact that no specific "disaster plan" to combat swine fever had been formally approved at the time, does not mean to say that the Netherlands had not effectively combated this disease. The European Commission, consequently, had no right to reduce European financial aid provided for this Member State in the framework of a general eradication of swine fever in 1997 by 25%. That is The Hague's argument in a case it has taken against the Commission before the...