22/01/2003 (Agence Europe) - At a meeting in Brussels of the New Defence Agenda of Forum Europe, CDU member Karl von Wogau MEP proposed a two-stage plan for European defence. Thus, according to him: - by 2004, the EU should have some 5,000 troops available, twenty-four hours a day, for rescue operations throughout the world. "The protection of European citizens in crisis regions is a reasonable task the European Union can indeed allow itself", commented Von Wogau, noting the delay in...