Brussels, 24/05/2000 (Agence Europe) - Raffaele Costa (EPP, Italian) announced in a press release that the EP Committee on Budgetary Control has taken a stance against European Commission discharge for the implementation of the MEDA programme (EU cooperation with Mediterranean countries) for the period 1995-1999, a period during which only EUR 897 million, "not even one quarter of the total" budget allocated, were spent. Mr Costa, who acknowledges that the Prodi Commission is not responsible...