Strasbourg, 06/09/2000 (Agence Europe) - By presenting the broad lines of the draft EU budget for 2001 to the European Parliament on Tuesday afternoon, which was adopted by the Budget Council in July this year (see EUROPE of 21 July, p.4 and 24 July, p.7), EU Council President Pierre Moscovici stressed above all the "excellent climate in which this budgetary procedure began" during which, he said, the provisions of the new Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 "came into full play"....