07/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - CSU elected representative Ingo Friedrich is launching a competition, from 7 June to 19 July, on the text for a European hymn. The music already exists - Beethoven's Ode to Joy - he recalls in a press release, although he considers that the verses by Schiller which accompany the music should now be replaced by a specific text. The words, Mr Friedrich says, should be "simple and convincing", four to five stanza long and four to six lines at most. The passages in...