Brussels, 21/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - In a column published in the Le Monde newspaper on 22 October, the President of the Portuguese Republic, Jorge Sampaio declared that it was necessary to amend the Stability and Growth Pact. "I am now wandering if the time is not right to plan for a new pact", he writes in the pages of the French daily, emphasising that "some economists believe that a possible means of reform would consist of calculating budgetary surplus separately from public spending,...