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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9365
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/economy

Commission welcomes Swedish and Estonian convergence programmes and calls for United Kingdom and Lithuania to make more of an effort

Brussels, 13/02/2007 (Agence Europe) - In Strasbourg, on Tuesday 13 February, the European Commission presented its assessment of convergence programmes for four EU member states. It gives almost unreserved approval to the updated programmes of Sweden and Estonia. It calls on the United Kingdom, which is correcting its excessive deficit 2006/2007, to pursue its public finance improvements, and invites Lithuania to reduce its structural balance of 0.5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)...

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