Strasbourg, 31/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - With its adoption -by a vote of 177 to 1, with 15 abstentions- of the report by Dutch Christian Democrat Karla Peijs on the Commission's communication on retail payments in the internal market, the European Parliament deemed unacceptable that bank transfers between Member States take longer than national transactions. Parliament invited the European Commission to amend the directive on cross-border payments with the goal of reducing the maximum time...