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"Mr President, the clearest lessons from this foot-and-mouth epidemic are that we need greater vigilance and a new emphasis on animal health, stricter controls on imports from countries where the disease is endemic on swill-feed plants and livestock farms, on animal transport and contingency plans for disasters such as this. Our continent's livestock must never again be put in jeopardy by failures in one country's Ministry of Agriculture.
Today, however, the task is not to apportion blame but to plan ahead. When the dust has settled we will find a devastated economic landscape in some of the more remote and vulnerable regions of the European Union, such as my constituency in south-west England. This is not simply a crisis in farming but a wasteland of failed businesses and job losses in tourism, transport and in other sectors. The Union can play an important role in helping to rebuild those economies. I seek the Commissioner's assurance that the Commission will talk now to the governments of the countries and regions affected about how structural fund and other programmes can be adapted to provide early and effective help."@en1
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