Luxembourg, 05/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - The EU health ministers, who met on Tuesday in Luxembourg under the chairmanship of Lars Engqvist, adopted a common position on the new Community action programme on public health (2001-2006). The text, which will now be the subject of a second reading at the European Parliament, remains, however, quite far from what MEPs had hoped and could therefore lead to conciliation procedure.
The Council did not follow the Parliament which had called for the...