Brussels, 02/04/2004 (Agence Europe) - In a recent interview with the Handelsblatt, the President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, seemed willing to lower European interest rates to accompany the structural reforms which he acknowledged would have a negative short-term impact. But this hope was dashed on Thursday, for the immediate future at least, when the ECB Governing Council decided to keep interest rates unchanged, with the minimum rate for re-financing remaining at...