Brussels, 24/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - Hans-Gert Poeterring, President of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, qualified as "pragmatic" the attitude of the European council of 20 and 21 March on Iraq. According to the CDU member, in the current difficult situation it is already a good thing that the Fifteen should have succeeded in not worsening their differences on the subject. As to the Belgian initiative of rekindling the defence policy by beginning with the Franco-German axis...