Foot-and-mouth runs a Ferrari — Maria’s on a moped, and Trump threw her a lifeline

Yesterday, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou passed through parliament with a suitcase stuffed with measures, figures, doses, action plans, and coordination frameworks. Anyone listening without prior knowledge might have concluded that the state had been running at full throttle for months — that when foot-and-mouth disease came knocking, it found a machine humming with Swiss-watch precision. […]

By Giorgos Kallinikou