Strasbourg, 06/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament adopted with a very large majority (458 votes for, 111 against and 11 abstentions) the report by Othmar Karas (EPP, Austria) on the draft Directive on the activities of the professional pension institutions, in other words: the pension and complementary pension funds. During this first reading, the Parliament adopted around one hundred amendments that direct the draft Directive towards a more liberal meaning, by favouring the...