Brussels, 29/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - After three days of discussions, the Council's Budgetary Committee reached, on Thursday, an agreement by qualified majority on the preliminary draft budget 2002 (APB) to be forwarded for examination to Coreper (10 July), which may bring changes before the first reading of the Council on 20 July. The Committee decided to do away with the reserve of one billion euros (despite the opposition expressed by the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands), that the...