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Lithuania presses EU to tackle crisis

By Robert Anderson in Stockholm

Published: February 18 2009 12:51 | Last updated: February 18 2009 12:51

Eastern Europe is being plunged deeper into recession by western Europe’s banking crisis and needs co-ordinated help from the European Union, according to Andrius Kubilius, the Lithuanian prime minister.

“It would be good to see a more co-ordinated approach from the EU authorities,” Mr Kubilius told the Financial Times during a visit to Stockholm. “We are all suffering in a similar way from the credit crunch and the recession.”

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