Brussels, 12/07/2002 (Agence Europe) - The informal meeting of the finance and economy ministers of the eurozone, held on Thursday and chaired by the Greek minister Nicos Christodoulakis, focussed on assessing the budget situation of countries with too high a public deficit (Italy, Portugal, France and Germany) in the words of Commissioner Pedro Solbes, who implied that he would have no choice but to launch excess deficit proceedings against Portugal when he received the official 2001...