Strasbourg, 23/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament, in adopting on 18 December (385 for, 66 against and 26 abstentions) the report of the elected member of Forza Italia Guido Podestà on the "future budgetary needs for external action" of the EU, underlined the role it intends to play in this area. The resolution affirms that it is "the responsibility of the Parliament, as the branch of the budgetary authority, to initiate consideration of the enlarged EU's future needs...