Brussels, 17/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday lunchtime, barely an hour before the opening of the European Council, the European People's Party finally announced its candidate to take over from Romano Prodi at the head of the next European Commission: the British Conservative Chris Patten, currently Commissioner for External Relations. Mr Patten was named after a two-hour debate at the end of the EPP's traditional pre-European Council Summit, which was held in Meise, near Brussels. The...