Brussels, 24/11/2000 (Agence Europe) - During the long night of budget discussions, the Council and the Parliament agreed on all the points of the Budget 2001 on which they had hitherto been opposed. By reaching a compromise on Thursday that they were all tending towards - the Council agreed to increase aid to the Balkans by using the flexibility instrument, and the Parliament agreed in exchange to limit the rise in payment appropriations - both branches of the budgetary authority and the...