Brussels, 13/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Monday the Competitiveness Council adopted its partial general approach on the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme for 2007-2013 (CIP), agreeing the non-budget elements of last spring's Commission draft programme, largely dedicated to SMEs and with a budget of 4,212 billion euro (see EUROPE 8923). Given that the budgetary elements of the CIP depend on the still on-going Financial perspectives 2007-2013 negotiations, the Twenty-Five reached...