Brussels, 08/05/2001 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday, the Commission adopted the Preliminary Draft Budget (PDB) for 2002 which, despite significant imperatives in financing the BSE crisis and the foot and mouth outbreak and the respect of EU undertakings towards third countries and candidate countries, confirms our "commitment to strict budgetary discipline. The Berlin ceilings are fully respected and we propose to stabilise our payments at their 2001 levels of 1.06% of EU GDP", insisted the...