Brussels, 16/12/2005 (Agence Europe) - Europe needs economic reforms, social modernisation and sustainable environmental policies to face up to the challenges of globalisation and demographic change, the Heads of State and Government of the EU said on Friday in the conclusions of the European Council. As Finance and Economy Ministers had done in their conclusions of the Ecofin Council on 6 December (EUROPE 9083), the European Council welcomed the national reform programmes established by the...