Brussels, 12/11/2001 (Agence Europe) - At its meeting last Wednesday, the Budget Committee reached qualified majority agreement on the broad outlines of the draft Budget for 2002. This technical compromise proposes increasing spending on commitment appropriations by 1.42% and on payment appropriations by 1.15% over the 2001 budget (as against +2.1% and +1.97% respectively on first reading by the Council in July 2001). This is a provisional agreement that has no bearing on what the Permanent...