Strasbourg, 24/05/2007 (Agence Europe) - The Parliament has not turned a blind eye to developments in maize public purchasing. On Thursday 24 May, it voted in favour of a gradual reduction in quantities of maize eligible for intervention, after the fashion of the compromise that European agriculture minsters are to reach in Luxembourg on 11 June (EUROPE 9429). The EP did not therefore follow up the position of its agriculture committee that called for the European Commission's controversial...