Strasbourg, 14/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - The European shoe industry is a sector made up of a large number of small companies (more than 11,000 in 2005), often concentrated in regions where they are the largest employers: in 2005, they produced 700 million shoes, one tenth of the world's production. This was highlighted by Spanish Socialist Enrique Baron during a debate, on Tuesday afternoon, on the situation in the European shoe sector one year after liberalisation, and on measures proposed...