10/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - In a press release on 9 January 2006, the European Ombudsman, Nikiforos Diamandouros, welcomed the decision of the European Commission to give a Portuguese MEP access to a letter concerning the Portuguese excessive debt procedure. This decision was reached after the intervention of the Ombudsman who expressed surprise that, after the European Commission's refusal, in September 2004, to communicate a letter from the Portuguese Finance Minister, it had not...