Brussels, 24/06/2007 (Agence Europe) - At 5 in the morning on Saturday 23 June Angela Merkel stated that, “negotiations had taken a lot of time but we have obtained what we wanted: a very detailed and precise mandate” for arranging an inter-governmental conference (IGC) that will certainly be before the end of July and which will finalise and adopt a “treaty of reform” for the European Union by the end of the year (probably in October). The German Chancellor recognised that, “this...