Brussels, 22/10/2010 (Agence Europe) - The EU Council challenges the framework agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission signed on 20 October in Strasbourg (see EUROPE 10240). It announces that the framework agreement “cannot be applied to the Council”. In a statement adopted Thursday 21 October, the Council considers that the agreement could change the institutional balance set out in the treaties in force in so far as it tends to give the...