06/08/2008 (Agence Europe) - In a press release published on Wednesday 6 August, the European Commissioner for development, Louis Michel, strongly condemned the military coup d'état in Mauritania that same day. The European Commission is expressing its serious concerns about the situation in the country, which is jeopardising exemplary democratic progress made in the country since the coup d'état in 2005. Democratic transition, politically and financially supported by the European Union...