Brussels, 07/01/2000 (Agence Europe) - The leader of the Green Group in the European Parliament, Paul Lannoye, announced that his group would talk to the Portuguese Presidency in Strasbourg on 18 January about shipping safety. Paul Lannoye remarked that the sinking of the oil tanker Erika off the French coast had shown that the European Union had finally to adopt shipping legislation that was "genuinely" effective". Along the lines developed on Thursday by the Director for shipping in the...