Brussels, 28/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - With the forthcoming informal “Justice and Home Affairs” Council in September 2006 in Tampere, the European Commission has carried out a political assessment of the programmes accomplished in implementing The Hague programme of 2004 in which it underlines that a vast number of the “acquis” in the domains of police and legal cooperation in penal affairs (third pillar) remain in the area of “virtual reality”. This situation is explained by two...