Strasbourg, 11/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday evening during the European Parliament plenary sitting, European Budgets Commissioner Michaele Schreyer, after President Prodi, defended the proposals to step up the Union budget set out in the Commission communication on financial perspectives for 2007-2013 - although she was among the Commissioners most inclined to be rigorous. (See yesterday's EUROPE, p.7). These proposals gave rise to discordant reactions - though not more positive than...