Brussels, 10/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - The resignation, on Tuesday, of German Agriculture Minister Karl Heinz Funke (Social Democrat) and Health Minister Andrea Fischer (Greens) for the bad management of the mad cow crisis was welcomed as a "rational" gesture by Dagmar Roth Behrendt, spokesperson for consumer groups in the Socialist Group of the European Parliament. She hopes it will mark a new starting point in terms of redeployment of competence. In a press release, the MEP nonetheless...