07/11/2006 (Agence Europe) - The priorities of the German Presidency of the Council of the EU for the first half of next year were discussed at a meeting in Berlin on 6 and 7 November organised by the Socialist group at the European Parliament, the PES. PES President Martin Schulz explained in a press release that economic progress in Europe has to go 'hand-in-hand with social progress.' German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called for an EU foreign policy based on secure energy...