14/07/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission adopted, as planned, on Friday, a draft negotiating brief for the conclusion of an EU/Switzerland bilateral agreement on the fight against fraud which, according to its estimates, generates each year a loss of several billion euros for the EU (see EUROPE of 13 July, p.11, for more details). The draft, based on a joint initiative by European Budgets Commissioner Michaele Schreyer, External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten, and in...