Brussels, 16/06/2008 (Agence Europe) - At a meeting in Osaka in Japan, G8 finance ministers (Germany, Canada, US, France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and Russia) have called on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) to examine “the real and financial factors behind the recent surge in oil and commodity prices, their volatility, and the effects on the global economy”. This is an explicit invitation to examine more closely the impact of...