08/11/2004 (Agence Europe) - Silvana Koch-Mehrin (FDP, Germany), Vice-president of the ALDE Group at the European Parliament, reproaches the Schröder government in a press release for "sowing uncertainty" by "constantly presenting new proposals on the way it could avoid excessive deficit procedure fixed in the treaties". "The most recent idea, that of excluding from the debt calculation the net contribution made to the European Union budget, is yet another attempt to hide the government's...