You'll find the European Commission press release on the draft reply of the EU
& its membr States to the GP at http://www.ispo.cec.be/eif/dns/ip98184.html
(remark that it expressely supports the gTLD-MoU process)
You'd also find interesting the speech given by Ann Wilkinson to Mundo
Internet last week. You'll find it at cc: POC http://www.ispo.cec.be/eif/nextgen
(Anne is, among many other things the Wife of Christopher Wilkinson, a seniro
EU ofical and one of ISOC appointees to POC).
Amadeu