Brussels, 10/09/2007 (Agence Europe) - At their informal meeting near Berlin on Monday 10 September, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy adopted a joint statement seeking to increase the transparency and regulation of financial markets. The German chancellor and the French president called on EU heads of state and government to “act together on all these issues”. Hoping to “prepare the ground ahead of the adoption of decisions at the Spring summit 2008” (Ed: the European Council of...