Brussels, 05/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The EU Court of Auditors criticised the way in which the European Commission prepared and managed, in 1999, the European Union food aid to the Russian population, which had to face a bad harvest and serious social consequences of the financial crisis that had hit Russia in 1998. The main aim of the aid, namely to improve the precarious situation of the Russian people and to regularise the agricultural markets through the delivery of agricultural...