Brussels, 14/02/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 12 February, the EU Council of Ministers adopted a decision amending the financial management mechanism for the joint costs of European Union military and defence operations (Athena). This amendment to the 2004 decision establishing this mechanism relaxes certain conditions and extends it, in some cases, to a series of costs that had not originally been taken into account: - work relating to troop disembarkation, the protection of static...