Brussels, 11/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Commission has imposed a total fine of EU 124.26 million on eight Austrian banks for their participation in an agreement known as the "Lombard Club" which used wide-ranging price fixing techniques. Commissioner Monti described this agreement as, "one of the most shocking that the Commission has ever come across" because of the nature of its institutionalised character and the length and breath of the country it covered. It began well before Austria...