24/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - Gianni Pittella, member of Democratici di Sinistra, detects in the memorandum from the British government on reform of the European Union's cohesion policy a "leaning that is generally hostile to the Union's federalist process" (see EUROPE of 7 March, p.10, on the subject of the proposals by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown). If we accept the idea of reducing half the allocation of structural funds and reserving it solely for the Eastern European...