Summit produces no pan-European response to crisis

06.10.2008 / 11:55 CET

Summit on the financial crisis produces calls for co-ordination; national governments across Europe move to reassure depositors.

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DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (centre) speaks with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, pictured sitting beside German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at the press conference that followed their summit on the international financial crisis in Paris on 4 October. No agreement was reached on a pan-European response. REUTERS