Strasbourg, 12/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - The second reading of the draft Budget 2001 by the European Parliament opened in a calmer atmosphere than it did last year, thus concluding a less controversial budgetary procedure in which the Parliament and Commission did not really have to fight to obtain revision of the financial perspectives that the Fifteen did not want. The agreement reached between the EP and Council during the last Budget Council on 23 and 24 November fixed the main lines of...