Strasbourg, 17/05/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament finally adopted - by 349 yes, 80 no and 17 abstentions - the report by the CSU member, Ursula Schleicher, on the draft regulation concerning the status and the financing of European political parties, after the procedural battle launched by several small groups hostile to the financing of political parties at the European level (see below). The report seemed set aside from the agenda of this session, when, Thursday morning, the...