Brussels, 24/05/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Council of the European Economic Area (EEA), meeting at the level of the foreign ministers of the fifteen EU member countries, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein on Tuesday, formally approved a new financial instrument enabling the financial solidarity mechanism between the States of the area to be extended until 2003, mechanism intended to narrow the economic and social gaps between the regions of the EEA. The EEA/EFTA States will contribute to this...