19/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - Jacques Chirac and Tony Blair have written to Costas Simitis ahead of the European Council of Thessaloniki, to say that the time is right for the European Union to reassert itself as the leader in the global effort for international development. Mr Chirac and Mr Blaie point out that, at the G8 Summit in Geneva, they had asked for the EU contribution to the Global Health Fund to equal that of the United States (i.e. up to 1 billion dollars in 2004), and...