Brussels, 16/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - Celebrations for World Consumer Day on 15 March provided Consumer Protection Commissioner Markos Kyprianou with the opportunity to stress the key role played by the Commission in ensuring that the rights of consumers, namely revising the Community acquis to make them more coherent and to shift from consumer protection to consumer empowerment. In a declaration published on Wednesday, the Commissioner declared, “There are now 450 million consumers in...