Brussels, 23/05/2001 (Agence Europe) - By adopting, last week, the report by Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL, Portugal) on the fight against social exclusion (codecision, second reading), the Parliament approved most of the Council's common position. However, it adopted a series of amendments through which, in particular, it: - hopes for an programme allowing the EU and its Member States to give a decisive impetus to the fight against social exclusion and the eradication of poverty, whose results...