Brussels, 08/11/2001 (Agence Europe) - The EU Council has authorised the Director of Europol (without debate, during the meeting of the Culture/Audiovisual Council on 5 November) to conclude cooperation agreements to fight crime with Poland, Hungary, Estonia and Slovenia. These agreements, the first allowing operational cooperation between Europol and the candidate countries, had already been signed but could not yet enter into force, following a French "parliamentary reserve", which had...