01/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission continues to examine data for the draft budget 2003 of the French government and has not yet taken a decision on whether to send out a preventive warning, the spokesperson for Commissioner Pedro Solbes announced on Tuesday (see page 18). You may recall that last week Mr. Solbes strongly criticised the forecast of a budget deficit of 2.6% of GDP in 2003 that the Raffarin government put forward, regarding the figure "dangerously close" to...