Brussels, 12/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - A number of MEPs are to write to the European Commission this week to demand an apology, and even the resignation, of one of its members who proposed that, as a punishment, over-indebted countries should have their flags hung at half mast. On Friday, Günther Oettinger supported the idea of hanging the flags of deficit sinner countries at half mast outside EU buildings as a “deterrent”. The Commission immediately distanced itself from the...