Brussels, 19/07/2000 (Agence Europe) - As planned (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.6), the Commission approved, on Wednesday, its recommendation to the Council calling on ministers to grant it a negotiating brief for a stabilisation and association agreement with Croatia, in conformity with the guideline of relations between the EU and the western Balkan States. It would therefore be a very vast document, covering trade (with asymmetrical abolition of customs duties and other trade barriers)...