Tampere, 22/09/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday, the EU's justice ministers backed the idea of harmonising civil law legislation and discussed the idea of creating an EU civil code. We need clearer, harmonised rules in the form of a legislative text, said Finnish justice minister Leena Luhtanen after the meeting of EU justice and home affairs ministers in Tampere, Finland. In this connection, the Finnish Presidency urged the Commission to prepare a proposal to codify civil law in order to...