Brussels, 15/11/2000 (Agence Europe) - Discussions on aid to the Balkans and Mediterranean in Budget 2001 should enter the thick of the subject in the Parliament-Council-Commission meeting in Paris this Thursday, given that the Fifteen have found a compromise on the multi-annual envelope for these two regions (see other article, page 7), and have quantified the aid they wish to grant Serbia in 2001. In Parliament and the Commission, they are refining their stances. The "Budgetary trilogy" of...