02/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - By adopting the report by Swedish Socialist Goran Magnusson on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly once again hopes that the EU will sign up to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR); according to the Assembly, the draft Charter amounts to progress, but its goal cannot be achieved if EU institutions are not tied to the ECHR. It also deplores the fact that people belonging to ethnic, religious or linguistic...