Czech PM, union chief, agree that EU must build ‘common solution’ to financial crisis

Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek has said that EU member states need to work together to overcome the current global financial crisis. After a meeting with the head of the European Trade Union Confederation, John Monks, on Wednesday, the Czech prime minister said that Europe’s governments and unions had agreed that a ‘common solution’ was the only solution to the current economic turmoil. At the meeting on Wednesday morning, Mr Monks called on Mr Topolánek to take drastic action to secure European markets during his time at the helm of the European Union. Mr Monks said that it was agreed that protectionism was not the answer to the economic crisis being felt around the continent.