Brussels, 24/05/2004 (Agence Europe) - Discussions between European Commissioner Mario Monti and French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy continued relentlessly over the Ascension weekend in order to give concrete substance to the base of the agreement that was sketched out one week earlier on the Alstom dossier (see EUROPE of 18 May, p.13). It does not seem easy to come to a final agreement. The Commission plans in fact to make France comply closely with European rules and recalls in a press...