Brussels, 03/08/2006 (Agence Europe) - At his monthly press conference on 31 July, the French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin expressed support for “setting up at European level a quota for SME access to procurement contracts in order to encourage their growth”. France has been arguing for several months for the European Union to put in place a measure for SMEs similar to the American Small Business Act (SBA), which sets a minimum percentage of direct public contracts (23%) or...