Strasbourg, 17/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament held a somewhat surreal debate on Tuesday on the “European Commission strategy for 2005” - which in fact was about the strategy presented on 25 February by the Prodi Commission (the outgoing Commission), a fact which its Vice President Loyola de Palacio did not fail to point out. MEPs who spoke in the brief debate praised the five years of cooperation with Ms de Palacio, and Françoise Grossetête (UMP) deplored the absence...