Brussels, 05/04/2002 (Agence Europe) - Last week, using the written procedure, the Council adopted a confidential mandate for negotiating a global convention on the powers of courts and the decision of which court should rule on foreign civil and company law cases. The negotiating mandate sets out the European delegation's position of the round of negotiations at The Hague Conference on 22/24 April. The EU wants to keep its negotiating position secret, but all the same, it is known that the...