Brussels, 23/05/2000 (Agence Europe) - European Commissioner Pascal Lamy stepped up the pressure on the Council on Monday for it to rapidly overcome its "interminable" quarrel over the reform of the banana import regime, urging it to "seriously consider the exclusively tariff system" with which producer Member States want nothing to do. A month and a bit is too short to agree on another solution, given the American electoral deadlines, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, and, in a more...