Brussels, 04/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - Work of removing asbestos from the Berlaymont, building of over 200,000 sq. meters in which 3000 European Commission officials worked until 1991, should be completed by end-2003, said the Belgian Minister for Enterprise and Public Shareholding Rik Daems at the end of a visit to the building. "The esplanade will be definitive from next year and should be able to be re-opened to the public", the minister added, recalling that an "audit is being carried...