Brussels, 23/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - For many observers of the European institutions, Karel Van Miert, who died on Tuesday 23 June, after falling from a ladder in his much-loved garden, will always be a convinced European who was not afraid to speak his mind. Van Miert, the first leader of the Flemish Socialist Party, was elected to the European Parliament in the first election by universal suffrage in 1979, then again in 1984 (receiving almost 50,000 votes). As a European commissioner...