18/09/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 12 September, the European Parliament foreign affairs committee adopted the report by Marco Cappato (ALDE, Italy), calling on the Council to consider the possibility of pilot projects to turn part of the illegal poppy crop into legal opium-based analgesics. The report, which was adopted by 33 votes to 8, with 23 abstentions, also calls on the Council to devise and submit to the Afghan government “a comprehensive plan and strategy aimed at...