Brussels, 06/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - The Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner stressed to the press on 6 March the importance of EU election observation missions. The European Union has so far carried out 47 missions of this kind in 35 different countries, involving the mobilisation of 4 000 observers. “These missions, which really only began in 2000 (following several ad hoc missions in the 90s), are among the most effective instruments of the European Union to...