Brussels, 20/03/2000 (Agence Europe) - Whereas the Party of European Socialists, chaired by Rudolf Scharping and European Liberal Democrats, chaired by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen are holding their usual pre-European Council Summit in Lisbon on 22 March, on Friday the European People's Party decided to postpone its own summit (in which the Spanish, Luxembourg, Irish and Austrian prime ministers should have taken part). Here is the official reason set out by the party's President Wilfried Martens,...