Brussels, 16/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday in Brussels, the Ecofin Council meeting for its budget group reached an agreement by qualified majority voting in first reading on the tough draft budget for next year, following the preliminary draft budget presented in April by the European Commission. commissioner Michaele Schreyer, nevertheless, would have liked Ministers to have agreed to 472 out of the 774 new posts requested for enlargement. The concertation meeting with the...