Brussels, 02/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday in a statement to the press, European Commissioner Antonio Vitorino declared "for five years we have achieved substantial progress in most areas of the freedom, security and justice area". Vitorino was speaking about this policy launched in 1999 with the Treaty of Amsterdam and the European Council of Tampere. Although Vitorino recognised that decisions on the areas of asylum, legal immigration and co-operation over penal legal matters were...