23/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - French Defence Minister Alain Richard said in an interview published in the "Journal du Dimanche" on 22 October that "France should provide some 20% of all the personnel and equipment of the EU's future rapid reaction force. At the informal meeting of EU defence ministers, in Ecouen, several countries, but not France, had provided indications as to their contributions to this force, evaluated at 80,000 troops: Germany spoke of 18,000 troops, Spain 6,000, Belgium...