Strasbourg, 02/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - The statements made by Silvio Berlusconi on what he claims is the "superiority" of western civilisation over Islam (see EUROPE of 28 September, p.5, and 29 September, p.3) gave rise to a very heated debate on Monday evening at the European Parliament, from the opening of the sitting. The intervention by Francis Wurtz, President of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left Group, was particularly scathing. He denounced the "stupefying and profoundly...