Strasbourg, 19/05/2006 (Agence Europe) - Adopting by 514 to 56 with 8 abstentions the report by British Conservative James Elles on the European Commission's budget for 2007, the European Parliament said that the European Commission's annual political strategy reflected neither the urgent need for the EU to meet the challenges facing it nor the vision required to promote economic reform. The first financial year of the new budget timeframe, 2007 requires a strategic budget based on areas of...