24/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - the Committee for a Federal European State has written to the Italian foreign affairs minister, Franco Frattini, who in an interview in the Financial Times on 18 February announced that Italy, free from its duty in the presidency of the Council of the EU would be proposing courageous solutions to the problems affecting the transfer of sovereignty in Europe. According to the committee, Italy is expected to "take the courageous initiative of proposing to the five...