Brussels, 23/01/2003 (Agence Europe) - In its monthly bulletin published on Thursday, the European Central Bank (ECB) indirectly criticised certain aspects of the budgetary policies of France and Germany, asserting that "it is important that the stability programmes are founded on clearly defined measures and realistic hypotheses with regard to conjunctive developments and sufficiently ambitious improvement plans". It has therefore implicitly criticised France for refusing the call to get...