Strasbourg, 23/05/2006 (Agence Europe) - With the adoption on 18 May (522 votes to 32 and 15 abstentions) of the report by British Labour member Richard Howitt on the annual EU Council report on human rights in the world in 2005, the European Parliament asked to be more directly involved in drafting these annual reports while continuing to publish its own, in order to exercise parliamentary control on EU policy. Unlike those of previous years, the report does not simply examine the human...