Strasbourg, 18/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - Sweden is holding the European Union Council Presidency for the first time and, during its term of office, it will act in the interests of the Union as a whole, striving to ensure continuity and to make the development of Europe move forward, said Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson when he presented the programme of the Swedish Presidency to the European Parliament on Wednesday afternoon. The "danger to democracy today", states Mr Persson, "comes...