Strasbourg, 25/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - When voting on first reading, in Strasbourg on Thursday, on the draft budget 2002, the European Parliament approved a budget amounting to 99.634 billion euro in commitment appropriations and 98.736 in payment appropriations, an increase, respectively, of 624.999 million euro and 3.138 million euro on the figures agreed by the Council of 20 July. In this context, Parliament adopted the reports by Carlos Costa Neve (Portuguese, EPP-ED), on the general...