Brussels, 12/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - In a joint letter to the President of the European Council, Guy Verhofstadt, the President of the General Affairs Council, Louis Michel, and the President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, the Presidents of 5 European political parties welcomed the fact that the Belgian Presidency had had the statute of European political parties adopted and stressed the importance of this for extending democratic life in the European Union. "As a minimum we...