Brussels, 27/07/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has amended its guidelines on regional state aid to reflect more closely the situation in the French overseas departments, the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands, as required by the new Article 299(2) of the Treaty of Amsterdam. This new article introduces specific measures for the very remote regions, given the structural economic and social situation compounded by their remoteness, insularity, small size, difficult...