Brussels, 21/06/2013 (Agence Europe) - In order to curb financial speculation on food, there is little that can be expected from the revision of the directive regulating markets in financial instruments (MiFID), warned a coalition of environmental and development NGOs on Friday 21 June - the day when the Ecofin Council confirmed, in Luxembourg, its political agreement in principle on the revision of this MiFID legislation (see other article).
In the opinion of the NGOs (Concord Denmark,...