04/01/2011 (Agence Europe) - Battisti: not within EU remit. While the diplomatic battle wages between Italy and Brazil after the outgoing president, Lula, decided at the end of December not to expel the far right former militant, Cesare Battisti, to his country of origin, the European Commission said on Tuesday, at midday, that it did not have any authority to put pressure on Brazil. Italy, via its foreign affairs minister, Franco Frattini, is said to be currently seeking to convince its...