Brief items for which space was lacking in earlier issues
*** EU/Espionnage: Former CIA Director JamesWoosley has responded to accustions that the United States used the Echelon system to spy on behalf of US companies, saying that "most European technologies are not worth stealing".
*** EU/Austria: Erkki Tuomioja, Finnish Foreign Minister, stated in an interview with the newspaper Demari that the Schüssel government was set up "under totally democratic conditions" and that, "if, after a...