Brussels, 02/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - In an article published by Le Monde on 2 March entitled "Approfondissons l'Union européenne bien sûr, mais comment?" (It's only natural for us to consolidate the EU, but how?), Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Durao Barroso stressed that an enlarged EU "needs new operational rules so as not to sink into institutional impotence and to safeguard the very essence of the Community method". For Portugal, which has a "history of over eight hundred...