Brussels, 20/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Chair of the Development Committee, Joaquim Miranda (Portuguese, GUE) has written to European Parliament President Pat Cox asking him to seize the opportunity offered to him by the opening of the meeting of the European Council to "protest against the Spanish Presidency proposal aimed at creating penalty procedures for developing countries" deemed not sufficiently co-operative in the fight against illegal immigration by abolishing aid. This issue...