Strasbourg, 28/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - Adopting the report of Mercedes Bresso (PES, Italy), the European Parliament last week gave the green light at second reading to the framework directive on corporate business practices towards consumers, making a couple of changes to the Council's common position (see EUROPE of 17 November 2004). The aim of this directive is to give the Union common rules to step up consumer protection- especially vulnerable consumers- against practices which it lists...