18/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission denied on Thursday having postponed the adoption of its proposal on the statute of European parties due to the intervention of two Commissioners (some newspapers have referred to Commissioners Patten and Schreyer) or because the decision would have disadvantaged certain parties (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.6). "The principle of the adoption of this decision has not at all been disputed in Commission, it was simply decided that the text...