25/08/2004 (Agence Europe) - At the end of a working lunch with Israeli counterpart Sylvan Shalom on Monday in Paris, the French minister of foreign affairs Michel Barnier affirmed, according to AFP, that the EU's successful role in the Middle East peace process was "recognised and consolidated". He also reiterated the "the availability of France and the European Union to the contribution to the Israeli project of withdrawing from the Gaza Strip", in a process that he insisted in their eyes...