24/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - The British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has told the press that the French President Jacques Chirac, who is currently challenging the United Kingdom's budget rebate decided upon at the Fontainebleu European Council in June 1984 (see Europe of 23 October, p.11), had been one of the signatories to the conclusions of the European Council in Berlin on 24/25 March 1999 which had decided that the rebate should continue. Straw said that discussion of the rebate was not...