09/05/2000 (Agence Europe) - Dear Readers, the end of the article on EU Ecofin, p.10, EUROPE 7712, was inadvertently omitted and reads as follows. Our apologies. Austrian stability programme. The Council accepted the Commission criticisms with regard to the insufficient ambition of the Austrian programme and invited the Vienna government to remedy it during the next revision. The Austrian minister made similar pledges. Banks. The Council gave its agreement on the "common position" over the...