Brussels, 12/12/2005 (Agence Europe) - With the adoption on 7 December in Paris of a report by Jean-Pierre Kucheida (Socialist Group, France), the WEU Assembly took a stance in favour of “closer political cooperation” between the EU and NATO, “based on genuine equality, firm partnership and abiding mutual respect”. It considers that the political and operational cooperation between the EU and NATO should go beyond the framework set by the Berlin Plus agreements of 2003 which mainly...