Brussels, 16/04/2002 (Agence Europe) - ÖVP MEP, Usula Stendzel, asserted in a communiqué that European Commissioner for Enlargement, Gunter Verheugen, had not convinced her during his speech to the European Parliament's European Affairs Committee, that the "Benes Decrees are no longer legally valid" (see EUROPE 12 April page 6). The Zeman/Verheugen declaration stated that the 1945 decrees affecting ethnic Germans from the Sudentenland were no longer legally valid and would have no impact...