Strasbourg, 18/01/2000 (Agence Europe) - At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, the Vice-President of the EPP Group James Elles stressed the importance that the Group attached to the van Hulten Report (summarised in EUROPE of 14 January, p.8) and said that, whereas the first version of the report was "very weak, vague and rather limited in approach", the EPP's amendments had turned it into a much stronger document. We hope to strengthen it even further in plenary, said Mr. Elles,...