Brussels, 10/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - German Social Democrat Jo Leinen (co-rapporteur with Inigo Mendez de Vigo at the European Parliament on the Laeken European Council) and German Christian Democrat Elmar Brok, President of the EP's Foreign Affairs Committee, have both welcomed Monday's General Affairs Council's decision to give EU accession candidate countries observer status for the upcoming Convention to prepare for the next round of institutional reform (see EUROPE of 8/9 October,...