Brussels, 19/12/2006 (Agence Europe) - The Council's annual report on human rights and democracy gave Finnish foreign minister Paula Lehtomäki (speaking on behalf of the Finnish Presidency) the opportunity to stress to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last week the European Union's commitment to universal respect for fundamental freedoms and the role the promotion of these freedoms can have in combating terrorism (a point which, curiously, was not really picked up in the debate which...