Press on with structural reform now, new EU members urged

Report of a FT interview with Dalia Grybauskaite, the EU Budget Commissioner elected as Lithuania's next president in May 2009. She said that the European Union's new member states should use the economic crisis to make essential reforms - rather than beg for international assistance,

ESO: Background information: Lithuania: Presidential election, 17 May 2009: Lithuania votes in new president http://www.europeansources.info/record/lithuania-presidential-election-17-may-2009-lithuania-votes-in-new-president/

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