Brussels, 31/07/2007 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission takes the view that the idea of a European civil protection force is more than ever appropriate given the forest fires that continue to rage in southern Europe. Stavros Dimas, the European environment commissioner responsible for the Community civil protection system, stresses how timely and necessary such a force is, as suggested by Michel Barnier, former European commissioner and currently French agriculture minister, one year...