Brussels, 07/04/2004 (Agence Europe) - The EU/Romania joint parliamentary committee (JPC), which met on 5 and 6 April, has expressed its hopes that the European Commission will recognise Romania as having a functioning market economy "as soon as possible". The country has achieved "relative macro-economic stability", with real economic growth of 4.9%, a rate of inflation of 14.4% and a budgetary deficit of just 2.4% in 2003, according to members of the Romanian and the European Parliament,...