Brussels, 03/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - At a joint meeting last week in Riga (Latvia), the President of the European Parliament, Pat Cox, and the presidents of the national parliaments of the thirteen candidate countries appealed to the EU and to candidate countries to reach "balanced solutions" in the accession negotiations to enable future Member States to be treated on the same footing as the current Member States. A common declaration asserts that new EU Member States have to be able to...