05/08/2008 (Agence Europe) - In a press release published on Tuesday 5 August, the president of the EPP-ED group at the European Parliament, Joseph Daul, paid homage to the former dissident and Nobel Prize winner for literature, Alexander Solzhenitsyn who passed away on Sunday. Mr Daul said that, “his name will always remain associated with the defence of peace and freedom” and affirmed that the writer, who was stripped of his Soviet nationality in 1974 had become, “an icon of...