Brussels, 06/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 10 February, EU finance ministers will conduct a first horizontal assessment of national economic recovery programmes and their consequences for budgetary and structural policies. The recovery plans may have prevented the collapse of the financial system, but credit markets remain very fragile and the aim of ensuring lending to the real economy at normal price has not yet been achieved, states the Economic and Financial Committee (EFC) in a...