02/09/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Swedish Prime Minister, Göran Persson, in an interview in the Financial Times, asserted that France, Germany and Italy would have to do more to attain balanced budgets and that their policies were damaging Euro zone stability. Mr Persson said that, "If they had behaved like Sweden, Finland the UK and others during the 1990s, preparing their economies for the down turn, we should not have this situation today".