Brussels, 17/12/2001 (Agence Europe) - At the European Parliament's extraordinary session on 17 December, Guy Verhofstadt outlined a positive balance sheet for the Laeken European Council and the six months of the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council which had been "bouleversé" (turned upside down) by the 11 September attacks. Most important of all was the Laeken Declaration by means of which for the first time "we launched a constitutional process" and decided to make "a new Europe",...