23/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday, the European Parliament rejected the initiative put forward by Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands on amending the process for selecting the director and deputy directors of Europol. This was in protest against the "Council's offhandedness towards Parliament". Rapporteur Gérard Deprez (EPP, Belgium) explains in the explanatory statement of his report that he does not criticise the timeliness or the content of the initiative but rather the fact...