Brussels, 06/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - "We forget too easily that when the National Assembly voted 'no' to the European Defence Community (EDC) in 1954, the shock this sent through the European leaders at the time was at least equal to that we are feeling today, in view of the French and Dutch 'no'", said José Manuel Barroso, speaking in Messina on 4 June, at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the conference which relaunched European construction, leading to the European Economic...