Brussels, 08/05/2008 (Agence Europe) -The EU is a long way from having a coherent and efficient policy to promote human rights in the world, states the European Parliament in the report by Marco Cappato (Italy, ALDE) on human rights in 2007, which was adopted on Thursday 7 May at the plenary session by a vast majority (533 votes in favour, 63 against, 41 abstentions). A "qualitative leap" in favour of the defence of human rights is, therefore, necessary as part of the common foreign and...