The European Central Bank (ECB) to provide the countries of Eastern Europe, access to finance in the euro. This was said Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, in his article in the French newspaper Le Figaro, transmits Reuters. Tymoshenko urged the ECB to follow the U.S. Federal Reserve, opened the lines of foreign exchange from the central bank of a number of countries, including Brazil, Mexico, Singapore and South Korea.
The Prime Minister added that European countries should abandon protectionism and the euro zone states should not be ignorirovast countries in Eastern Europe. "We must not allow the euro to the emergence of the Iron Curtain", - said Tymoshenko.
Fed U.S. in autumn 2008, opened swap lines with some foreign partners in order to satisfy their need for a dollar of cash. Similarly, the ECB, by opening access to the liquidity of the central bank of Denmark, Poland and Hungary.
Ukraine affected by the global economic crisis stronger than the other Eastern European countries, is counting on financial assistance from outside. The Government has agreed with the International Monetary Fund for a loan value of 16.5 billion dollars. However, while Ukraine received only the first tranche of the loan. The IMF decided to suspend the transfer of funds due to the poor, the evaluation expert fund, the financial policy of Ukraine.
Kiev also appealed for support from foreign countries, including Russia and the G7, however, whether any talks on this subject, now unknown.
Earlier, the EU rejected the request of the Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Dyurchanya to help the Eastern European States in the amount of 180 billion euros. Representatives of the European Commission responded that the intention to talk about financial assistance to each region separately.
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