Brussels, 09/09/2008 (Agence Europe) - In a speech made on the eve of the publication of new Commission economic forecasts, Joaquin Almunia, confirmed the sluggishness of the European economy. The commissioner for economic and monetary affairs was speaking at a conference in Frankfurt where he explained that OECD and ECB prospects for the second half of 2008 and beginning of 2009 “are not very good”. Almunia stressed that 2008 is a “difficult year”, the situation “unusually...