Brussels, 27/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - Commissioner Mario Monti held a meeting last Thursday in Berlin with Germany's Finance Minister Hans Eichel, to discuss the monitoring of state aid schemes. The two officials reviewed the problem of aid to German public banks, on which an arrangement satisfactory to all parties was reached recently (see EUROPE of 2 March, p.11). They also agreed that it is indispensable to maintain a credible state aid policy in the Community and that close cooperation...