Athens, 16/04/2003 (Agence Europe) - The informal European Council meeting in Athens, on 16 April, allowed broad consensus to be reached on creating a European Minister of Foreign Affairs and on several other proposals envisaged by the European Convention.
Costas Simitis, European Council President, welcomed this result and stressed that the Heads of State and Government of the European Union and of the ten accession countries very broadly recognised the need to strengthen the Community...