Brussels, 11/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - The idea put forward by "powerful political forces" that an EU Council President could hold office for five year is "bad from every point of view" and "needs to be resisted if the institutional framework of the European Union is to avoid serious, and perhaps irreparable damage". Such is the view expressed in the address by Peter Sutherland (former European Competition Commissioner and former Director General of GATT) during the meeting, on 11 October in...