Items for which space could not be found last week
*** France/Germany/IMF: French Finance Minister Laurent Fabius and his German counterpart Hans Eichel announced on the occasion of the French-German Economic Council (Wirtschafsrat) meeting in Grenoble last week that France and Germany will be presenting a joint initiative on reform of the International Monetary Fund.
*** EU/Austria: In an interview for the Portuguese radio RTP, Jörg Haider affirmed that, in order to lift the bilateral...