Brussels, 28/05/2010 (Agence Europe) - On 27 May, the European Commission's Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC) received a request for assistance from the United States Coast Guard to provide specific types of oil recovery equipment to help tackle the massive oilslick, the scale of which has never been seen before, in the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion of an oil platform run by BP called Deepwater Horizon. The European Commission announced that within a few hours, the MIC put...