Brussels / Ottawa, 20/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - Tuesday's summit between the European Union and Canada confirmed the sound health of this transatlantic relationship "increasingly essential" and close. Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, the President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi and the French Head of State Jacques Chirac fired the starting pistol for joint initiatives in different major economic, social and political sectors: higher education and training, justice, defence,...