Xylella is spreading throughout Europe, in particular in France, Spain and Germany and it is certainly no longer a problem only in Italy and much less in Puglia. Now the bacterium has been identified for the first time in Dutch territory, where an outbreak has been ascertained in a garden of a building in Noordwijkerhout, a municipality located in the province of South Holland. This was announced by official sources of the Dutch Food Safety Authority (NVWA), cited by several transalpine media. The spokesperson said the plant, a Coffea, which exhibited symptoms such as deciduous yellowing and leaf loss, was immediately destroyed in accordance with EU regulations. There are no additional measures by NVWA. The bacterium was identified thanks to the reinforced controls put in place a few weeks ago, on a Coffea plant. Furthermore, no buffer zone has been imposed. The Dutch climate is traditionally considered too cold to harbor bacteria, which is probably why it hasn't been found until now. Xylella is not only an Apulian problem and not even a national one, but a European problem, to all intents and purposes, because it arrived in Corsica and the French Riviera, in Germany, in the Balearic Islands in Spain, another in the Alicante area, a other in Andalusia, Belgium and now the Netherlands. The presence of the killer bacterium xylella fastidiosa also in the Netherlands, highlights Giovanni D'Agata, president of the "Rights Window", demonstrates what we have always said: the xylella emergency is of a supranational nature and the response must be generated by unitary opinions. It is also a demonstration that we must all feel committed to fighting this very particular problem, without exception, of the phytosanitary emergency that is threatening the Salento olive trees.
