06/09/2001 (Agence Europe) - After an informal dinner on Wednesday in Berlin (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.7), France and Germany announced that they would have a joint proposal for the Laeken Summit on 14/15 December (which will have the theme of the future of the European Union and future institutional reform). We will have a joint proposal on procedures and, where possible, on substance, signalled Gerhard Schröder according to AFP, which also reported that President Chirac had said that...