Brussels, 20/09/2000 (Agence Europe) - On the initiative of Commissioner Vitorino, the European Commission adopted a draft directive to the Council, on Wednesday, relating to the establishment of minimum standards for granting and withdrawing refugee status in the Member States of the Union The aim of this first instrument proposed by the Commission at the service of a common European asylum scheme (as requested by the European Council of Tampere), is to introduce, in the short term, a...