Brussels, 31/08/2006 (Agence Europe) - In an interview with La Repubblica on 31 August, the day before the informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Finland (see related article), the EU High Representative for CFSP, Javier Solana, who was asked about the strengthened UN operation in Lebanon, said: “Without the UN force there would be no peace. And without Europe there would be no UN force. Europeans make up the backbone of the contingent. In the first two phases of deployment, they make...