Brussels, 09/05/2000 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday the European Commission will adopt a preliminary draft budget for 2001 marked by the financing of aid to the Balkans, visible not only as credit redeployment under the heading "external actions" but also by the rise in the ceiling for this heading. As it had announced early February in its guidelines for the budget 2001 and again last week in its proposal of revision of financial perspectives, the Commission hopes the ceiling of "Heading 1...