Brussels, 17/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - To ensure continuity in the EU's ongoing trade talks on the bilateral and multilateral fronts, the European Parliament has decided to speed up the approval process for the new EU trade commissioner, Catherine Ashton, put forward by the EU Council of Ministers on 6 October 2008 to take over from fellow British national, Peter Mandelson, who has returned to the cabinet in the UK government as Business Minister. Under the procedure set out in Article 215...