Brussels, 19/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - "Regarding fundamental rights, there was both progress and backsliding in Nice", declared the Chairman of the European Parliament's Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, British Liberal Graham Watson, recognising that it was certainly progress to have included an early warning system in Article 7 to prevent serious breaches of fundamental rights on the part of a Member State. In addition, the fact of having provided for Parliament itself being...