Brussels, 13/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has proposed to step up exchanges of information on criminal sentencing. The Council's proposed decision, which was adopted by written procedure on Wednesday and published on Thursday, is a very first step towards creating a network of criminal records in the 25 Member States. It contains two planks. The first provides that each Member State must be informed immediately if one of its nationals is found guilty of a crime in...