Brussels, 10/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - As well as adopting the conclusions on the budgetary guidelines for 2004 (see EUROPE of 8 March, p.8), the Ecofin Council recommended the European Parliament on Thursday to grant discharge on the execution of the 2001 budget, whilst repeating its criticism of the surplus, "higher than the two previous years". The Council supports the Commission in its administrative reform process (and of financial management systems in particular), approving of the...