Brussels, 01/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - By unanimously adopting the report from David Hammerstein Mintz (Greens/EFA, Spain) on 23 February, the EP Petitions Committee has made a clear call to the Council of the EU to open its meetings to the public, arguing that it was “unacceptable for the EU's most important law-making body still to meet behind closed doors”. According to MEPs, “the Council should respond to the calls for greater transparency coming from Parliament, civil society and...