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Wed 02 Feb 2010UK and Sweden suggest IMF should help Greece
SHARP DIVISIONS have emerged within Europe over how to deal with Greece’s debt crisis on the eve of a summit that will be dominated by talks over the need to shore up confidence in the euro zone.
Non-euro zone countries, led by the UK and Sweden, yesterday broke from the public position of Germany, France and other euro area states by suggesting that, if Greece required help, the International Monetary Fund was best placed to supply it.
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