Brussels-Belgium - 20 November 2006---A press briefing organised by the Wirtschaftsrat der CDU e.V. (Economic Council of the Christian Democratic Party of Germany) at the Representation of Baden-Württemberg to the EU; here, German MEP Prof. Dr. Kurt Joachim LAUK (Stuttgart), President of the Wirtschaftsrat and Member of the European Parliament, Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats (EPP/ED), member of i.a. the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs---Photo: Horst Wagner/eup-images