Western banks should not pull out of Eastern Europe, a profitable region, despite crisis. According to the international information and study centre, CEPII, from June to December 2008, Western Banks reduced their debt in Eastern Europe by 12%. Although this disengagement by foreign banks is less than that experienced over the last few months in Latin America (-17% in both cases), it is much more significant in GDP terms, given that the banking sectors in Eastern Europe is 75% controlled by...