Brussels, 02/04/2004 (Agence Europe) - In his first speech as French Foreign Minister, former European Commissioner Michel Barnier told Quai d'Orsay staff on Thursday that he intended to "reinforce our country's role and place at the head of the European project". Noting that this project is "hindered and made brittle by a great number of challenges, internally and externally", he stressed "the political dimension to be given to this Union, without which everything that has been built up...