Strasbourg, 05/02/2002 (Agence Europe) - The President of the European Parliament, Pat Cox, briefly defended on Monday evening, during the opening of the plenary in Strasbourg, his decision not to follow the recommendation of the EP Committee on Legal Affairs to challenge the legal base of the regulation on the European Company Statute before the Court of Justice (see EUROPE of 2 February, p.8). German Christian Democrat Klaus-Heiner Lehne recalled that the EPP-ED Group had taken a stance in...