Brussels, 10/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - The Ecofin Council on 10 February in Brussels approved the substance of recommendations by the European Commission from 28 January on the updated stability and convergence programmes of France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands and the United Kingdom (see EUROPE of 29 January, p.8). On the form, the Ministers nonetheless appeared generally more clement than the guardian of the Treaties, especially in the case of France, against which...