Brussels, 19/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - During a conference in Salen (north-west of Stockholm) on Sunday, the President of the EU's Military Committee, the Finnish General Gustav Hagglund, said that European and American forces should take on the defence of their respective territories themselves, and co-operate for major external crises. According to Reuters, he added: "the American and European pillars [of NATO] would be responsible for the defence of their respective territories, and would...