Brussels, 30/08/2006 (Agence Europe) - Sketching out, on 30 August, the EPP-ED group's priorities over the coming months, Hans-Gert Pöttering placed particular emphasis on the Middle East and Lebanon. Those who play down the European Union's role, he said, should remember that, when the European Parliament set up a security and defence sub-committee, of which he was the first chairman, in 1984 (today's chairman is Karl von Wogau: Ed.), everyone laughed. In Lebanon, Europe has a military...