08/08/2001 (Agence Europe) - In a Statement of Principle, the European Commission on Wednesday openly opposed the plan by the Italian gynaecologist Severino Antinori aimed at conceiving a "normal" baby by cloning human embryo cells. The Commission, that has no power to legislate in a field that remains the responsibility of Member States, said that it was against the cloning of human beings for reproductive purposes, "for ethical reasons", that the new-born baby would have "a very high risk...