31/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Union of European federalists (UEF) chaired by the MEP Jo Leinen welcomed the resignation of Jean-Pierre Chevenement, French Minister of the Interior who, according to the press release, "neither understood nor accepted the project of a political Europe and the role of regions in contemporary society". After this resignation, the Federalists say the hope that in France "not only the Gaullists, Liberals and Ecologists, but equally the Socialists in government,...