Brussels, 02/08/2001 (Agence Europe) - In its ninth report on State aid in the EU, the Commission welcomes progress made in the matter, while urging Member states to make more efforts to further reduce the level of aid, which remains high. This ninth report updates the data of the previous report providing data relating to the period 1997-1999. According to these statistics, the overall level of aid was reduced, for that period, to an annual average of 90 billion euro, against 102 billion...