Strasbourg, 22/07/2004 (Agence Europe) - Hans-Gert Pöttering and Martin Schulz were at pains on Tuesday to state that the "technical" agreement between their groups, the EPP-ED and the PES, did not include a link between the yes vote of the EPP-ED MEPs to the election of Josep Borrell as the President of the European Parliament and the hoped-for support of the Socialists to the appointment of José Manuel Durao Barroso as President of the European Commission. A few hours later, when asked...