Strasbourg, 14/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - During a press conference to the backdrop of the plenary of the European Parliament on Tuesday, Hans-Gert Pöttering, the German president of the EPP-ED group at the European Parliament, stated that it was unwise to attempt to restrict European Union spending to 1% of GDP at the moment the Union was increasing by a further ten members. His remarks were later backed up by his counterpart in the Greens/EFA group, Daniel Cohn Bendit, who had sharply...