22/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - "We need more courageous progress in European integration. And we must at the same time strengthen the Commission. This work will only be achieved through close Franco-German cooperation", Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder declared before the Bundestag on Friday, adding: "It is with this in mind that Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and myself are going to Strasbourg on 31 January, to meet our French friends" (for the informal Franco-German summit that will take the...