18/05/2004 (Agence Europe) - The EU Council has decided to extend by six months the permit to stay in the European Union for the 13 Palestinians who arrived in May 2002 after the agreement allowing to evacuate them from the Church of the Nativity of Bethlehem that they were occupying. Taken in initially for one year, their right of stay had been extended a first time for one year. They had been taken in by Belgium, Greece, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Cyprus (Official Journal L138 of...