Brussels, 24/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - The 7th ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting), which naturally focused on the international financial crisis, opened in Beijing on Friday 24 October with a call by the president-in-office of the European Council to European and Asian countries to agree on a “common front of initiatives” with a view to the G-20 summit to be held in Washington on 15 November. “I am convinced that Asia, like Europe, must work together to regulate the global financial system...