Nice, 08/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Council in Nice included, in its conclusions on all the themes discussed except institutional reform, a passage on Common European Security and Defence policy (ESDP), which keeps itself to two paragraphs, and which is thus clearly shorter that the draft initially presented by the Presidency (nearly two pages).
The French Minister for European Affairs, Pierre Moscovici, explained on Friday to the press that the Heads of State and Government had...