Brussels, 28/02/2000 (Agence Europe) - The funding of the European Commission's external aid programmes reached "historic summits" in 1999, said the spokesperson for the Commissioner for External Relations, Chris Patten, on Friday. According to a report from the joint service for external relations (JSR), handed to the European Parliament's Budgetary Committee last week, the Commission committed EUR 7.9 billion to cooperation in 1999 and disbursed 4.9 bn, against respectively 7.4 billion and...