Strasbourg, 17/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - Adopting a report by Greek Social Democrat Antonios Trakatellis this week, the European Parliament completed its first reading in codecision of the draft EU public health strategy. The EP disagrees with the European Commission's idea of merging healthcare and consumer programmes in 2007-2013, and split the Commission's document into two parts. The EP wants some EUR 1.5 bn to be spent on healthcare, compared with the Commission's suggestion that EUR...