Brussels, 18/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - At the eighth annual conference on competition, in Vilnius from 16 to 18 June, Commissioner Mario Monti spoke of the state of negotiations that the EU is conducting with candidate countries in the matter, while awaiting the Commission's recommendations expected for October. You may recall that only the Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia), Slovenia and, only recently, Cyprus have been able to close the chapters on this subject. In the...