Brussels, 03/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - Apart from Italy, which is maintaining its strong reservation about the delegation of various budget implementation tasks to national bodies, the Committee of Member States' representatives to the EU (COREPER) managed to iron out the last problems on Thursday that various delegations had raised concerning the proposal to rehash the EU's Financial Regulation (see EUROPE of 12 April, p.8). The issue is on the agenda of Tuesday's ECOFIN Council. The...