Brussels, 29/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - On Friday, the European Commission launched a public consultation on the creation of the future European Fundamental Rights Agency. It will not present its proposed regulation to set this agency up until 2005. At the European Council of December 2003, the Member States decided to make the European Monitoring Centre for Racism and Xenophobia, based in Vienna, into a fundamental rights agency.
The European Commission raises the following issues: 1) What...