Brussels, 14/12/2011 (Agence Europe) - As announced in March of this year in a communication, the European Commission on Wednesday 14 December presented a proposed directive to reinforce the rights to consular protection of European citizens finding themselves in crisis situations abroad, such as those which occurred in 2001 in Japan, Libya and Egypt, but who were caught off-guard due to a lack of consular representation of their country of origin. The aim of Commissioner Viviane Reding is...