Brussels, 11/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - According to the draft conclusions due to be adopted by the EU's Finance Ministers on 17 February, “the Council welcomes the Commission's communication and proposals concerning the strategy for budgetary statistical governance” (EUROPE of 29 December, p.7). The three main lines of this communication are a regulatory framework aiming to extend Eurostat's legal powers, improving the Commission and Eurostat's operational capacities and instituting...