20/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 20 January, the Ecofin Council endorsed a decision to grant a loan of €3.1 billion to Latvia under the Community support mechanism for the balance of payments of EU countries not belonging to the eurozone. The loan will be allocated over three years, in several instalments with maturity of 7 years at most. It comes within a support plan set up with the Nordic countries, Estonia, the Czech Republic and the International Monetary Fund, amounting to...