Brussels, 18/09/2000 (Agence Europe) - One week before the informal meeting of the EU 15 Defence Ministers in Chateau d'Ecouen (see EUROPE of 16 September, p.3), the Belgian Minister for Defence André Flahaut presented the Verhofstadt government with the proposals for contribution that Belgium could make so as to reach by 2003 the "Headline Goal" of a EU rapid reaction force made up of around 60,000 men, indicated the Belga press agency. According to this proposals:
- the contribution by...