06/03/2001 (Agence Europe) - The two largest groups of the EP have launched their website pages intended for receiving contributions, including from the public, in the debate which has just opened on the future of Europe. Mr Pöttering, president of the EPP/ED group, thus called for comments on remarks by forty eminent personalities from parliaments, governments and universities in Europe, "members of our political family", on the site: http: //epp-ed.europarl.eu.int/home/en/default.asp. Mr Baron, President of the Socialist Group, who floated the debate on the site http://www.europarl.eu.int/pes/ , affirms: "It is our intention that this debate should lead to a common position of the Socialist Group" through "free and candid confrontation" involving the public.