Strasbourg, 05/07/2005 (Agence Europe) - With nine votes difference (287 for, 296 against and as many as 41 abstentions), the European Parliament rejected on Tuesday the resolution by Joachim Lauk (EPP-ED, Germany) on the ECB's annual report for 2004. None of the amendments presented by the PES and the Greens-EFA being taken into account, the general guidelines for the report remained too much in favour, in their view, of the ECB's orthodox position, the principle aim of which - maintaining...