Brussels, 10/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - At the plenary session of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels on 3-4 December, French Secretary of State for European Affairs Jean-Pierre Jouyet reviewed the French Presidency of the EU, highlighting that it was “a crisis management Presidency which needed the 27 member states to show solidarity”, whether in response to the Georgian conflict with Abkhazia or the global financial crisis. Jouyet also said that the Presidency...