Brussels, 28/12/2001 (Agence Europe) - John Palmer, Director of The European Policy Centre, made an overall positive assessment of the European Council that closed the Belgian Presidency, in an article entitled "The Laeken Summit - a Milestone for Europe" Among the hiccups, in this positive analysis, we find the lack of agreement on the site of the new agencies, "sabotaged in the last minutes" by Silvio Berlusconi and, "to a lesser extent", by President Chirac, which means that "this...