Strasbourg, 13/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - Approving its rapporteur, British Conservative Lord Inglewood, the European Parliament approved at first reading, on 12 March, the proposal of regulation presented by the European Commission on application of international accounting standards (IAS). The Commission may accept all the Parliament's amendments except one, for procedural reasons, said Commissioner Frits Bolkestein. He felt that the Union thus sends a powerful political signal about its...