Brussels, 27/02/2008 (Agence Europe) - The members of the European Parliament committee on economic and monetary affairs held a first, somewhat heated exchange of views on the question of hedge funds and private equity funds. Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (PES, Denmark), responsible for drafting an own-initiative report, wished to place the debate at the macro-economic level, evoking the role of the financial markets in the financing of the real economy and in the context of the Lisbon Strategy. He...