Brussels, 07/07/2004 (Agence Europe) - "How do we get Europe into action?" This is a question that EU ministers for competitiveness attempted to answer on 1-3 July when meeting up for the informal Council in Maastricht on the theme of "Fostering excellence: Challenges for Productivity Growth in Europe" (EUROPE 30 June p 9). Although the European Commission announced on Friday that economic growth would be higher than forecasts, the Dutch minister of the economy, Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst and...