Strasbourg, 07/06/2011 (Agence Europe) - EU Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier is urging the United States to speed up the convergence of their accountancy rules with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) that apply in many countries around the world and also apply in the European Union. Speaking last week at the Brookings Institute in Washington, Barnier said he was sure that the United States would meet their promise of moving towards convergence in financial...