Brussels, 15/07/2004 (Agence Europe) - The environment as an opportunity for the economy, is one of the main themes to be debated by EU environment ministers at the informal Council on 16-18 July in Maastricht (Netherlands). This is the priority of the Dutch presidency for the EU's environment policy during its mandate at the head of the Council, in an effort to put into practice the goal to make the EU the most competitive knowledge-based "economy in the world by 2010 (Lisbon Strategy). The...