Brussels, 20/12/2001 (Agence Europe) - Leaving the Internal Market Council meeting held at Laeken and convened by EU heads of state to help their ministers catch up lost ground on the Community patent after the failure of the meeting of 26 November 2001, the Belgian Economy Minister, Charles Picqué, said that meeting had not been without use. He tried to convince his audience that they had not been far from reaching agreement, but had to admit that three countries (France, Germany and...