Brussels, 08/09/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission and the United States reached agreement last week on a "Memorandum of Understanding" to be signed very shortly, and which stipulates a series of changes to be made to the Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) in force between the United States and eight of the ten accession countries of Central and Eastern Europe, as of 1 May 2004. It turned out that several provisions of the agreements, which the United States concluded at the...