Brussels, 11/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - “The international financial crisis has left the world as a whole facing exceptional challenges. The breakthrough in the efforts to bring about closer international cooperation and reform of international financial institutions achieved at the G-20 meeting in Washington on 15 November owes much to the coordinated approach developed in the European Union”, the president of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, said in his speech to the...