Brussels, 29/08/2003 (Agence Europe) - While the EPP-ED, PES, ELDR and GUE/NGL groups have suggested the 2003 Sakharov Prize be awarded to the UN and its staff (see yesterday's Europe, p.4), French Green MEP Marie Anne Isler Béguin is nominating Yuri Bandajevsky, a Byelorussian researcher condemned to eight years imprisonment for publishing research in 1999 on the impact of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, particularly on children. Professor Bandajevsky criticised the...