Vital room of action for State aid to key-economic sectors who don't affect EU Budget, but are justified by national social or economic policies, should not be excessively hampered by a "fundamentalist", "ideologic" "interpretation of Distortion of Competition"...

- "A New, Popular Europe in the World is urgent", said Prime Minister Raffarin, at the 60th Anniversary of Strasbourg's Liberation from Nazi Oppression (1944-2004). Freedom to become a symbolic Flag, to Bridge Memory and Future of Enlarged Europe's "New...