03/12/2004 (Agence Europe) - Welcoming the start of the EU-led Althea mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the chairman of the sub-committee on security and defence at the European Parliament, Karl von Wogau (CDU), states in a press release that the mission, with 7,000 troops, is the largest and most complex operation ever undertaken by the EU. The parliamentary sub-committee plans to gather information on the ground early next year on the way the operation is unfolding, Mr von Wogau announces. He...