Strasbourg, 02/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - Italy, as a founding country, has "a long experience of keeping to the letter and spirit" of the European treaties, and plans to conduct its EU Council Presidency "in this constituent phase, by hanging firmly onto the lessons of the past in order to build the future", was the assurance given by the new President of the European Council, Silvio Berlusconi, who presented the programme of the Italian Presidency to the European Parliament on 2 July. The...