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Against The Odds: How the Baltics Survived the Crisis

  • January 7, 2011

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  • 07:10

A huge party that led to a massive hangover. That is how many people describe what happened to the three Baltic republics, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the time they joined the European Union to the global economic crisis.

  • Jürgen Ligi, Minister of Finance Estonia
  • Ingrida Šimonytė Minister of Finance, Lithuania
  • Ilmars Rimsevics, Governor Bank of Latvia
  • Catriona Purfield, European Department IMF
  • Christoph Rosenberg, European Department IMF