Brussels, 19/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - “We must not allow the economic downturn and the financial market crisis to feed off one another. In addition to introducing short-term safeguards, we must therefore close the supervisory and regulatory loopholes in the financial sector and address the task of re-structuring financial markets worldwide”, said the president of the European Parliament during his opening speech for the Spring European Council in Brussels on Thursday 19 March. “We...