Brussels, 06/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - Just a few weeks from the date set for technical talks with the United States on alternative solutions to the "first come, first served" system, which must enter into force on 1 July, the Italian Foreign Minister, Lamberto Dini, made a pressing appeal to his European partners for them to propose rapid and acceptable reform of the banana regime, if they do not wish to see the imminent threat of escalation of transatlantic sanctions becoming a reality....