– (FR) Signor Presidente, signor Commissario, come altri oratori hanno già ricordato, poco meno di un anno fa, in questa stessa Aula, al culmine dell’epidemia della SARS, chiedevamo la creazione di un Centro europeo che si occupasse delle epidemie dell’epoca moderna; per quanto riguarda la sua missione, si sarebbe ispirato al CDC di Atlanta.
– (FR) Mr President, Commissioner, as others have already said, a little under a year ago in this very place, when the SARS epidemic was at its height, we called for the creation of a European centre to deal with modern day epidemics; so far as its tasks were concerned, at any rate, it would be modelled on the Atlanta CDC.