08/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - German Christian Democrat MEP Werner Langen, the European Parliament rapporteur on Lithuania and Slovenia joining the euro, is calling on Lithuania to accept the Stability Pact criteria (see Europe 9206 on the debate at the ECOFIN Council of Lithuania's failure to meet the inflation criterion). Langen explains in a press release that Lithuania's disappointment at narrowly missing the inflation rate authorised by the Stability Pact is perfectly understandable, but...