Brussels, 24/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - At Friday's informal Development Ministers' meeting in Trieste (EUROPE 21 October p 15), the Commission took stock of reactions from Member States and some new accession countries to its communication on including the European Development Fund in the budget by 2007. Many countries: France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Poland and Hungary supported integrating the EDF into the general EDF budget.
The United Kingdom, Spain...