Brussels, 04/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 4 March, the European Commission announced publication of the 2008 general report on EU activities. The introduction to the report explains that the year 2008 “threw up many major challenges, to which the member states and the institutions responded as a group”. The global financial crisis, climate change and international conflict brought rapid and effective European reaction that frequently pushed the Union to the forefront of the...