Brussels, 22/08/2005 (Agence Europe) - Several EU Member States decided on 21 August to come to the aid of Portugal by providing air support to fight the fires ravaging the country for the past several weeks. Called on Saturday evening by Lisbon, as part of the cooperation mechanism in the civil protection convention, the Monitoring and Information Centre at the European Commission passed on the request to the 30 or so member countries of the civil protection network (the 25 EU Member...