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...Given the combination of banking and trade links between Eastern and Western Europe that have been built up over the past five to ten years, it's clear that this cannot be seen as a self-contained regional crisis," says Neil Shearing, Eastern Europe economist at Capital Economics in London...
...eyes are now on the G20 summit, to be held in London on April 2. "One way to shore up investor confidence and stop the wholesale sell-off would be to get a coordinated response from the G20," says Shearing. "The market is being driven by fear and panic right now, which is what happens in a crisis. They could open up funding for the region through tie-ins with central banks in Western Europe or make available an IMF crisis fund of $500 billion for emerging Europe during the downturn...
...things to do in London...
...London: Sir John Soane's Museum John Soane, architect of the Bank of England when it was rebuilt in 1833, created this museum in his own house to showcase his massive collection of antiquities, artifacts and copies of Greek and Roman sculptures. Accessed via winding staircases, the narrow galleries are filled with plaster oddities: men fighting with griffins, single feet and knees, an acanthus leaf, a devil's face. Soane intended to create an Academy of Architecture, but ended up with a richly eccentric folly. For more information, go to www.soane.org. - by Lucy Fisher (See 10 things...
...pictures of London...