欧盟领导人同意推动国际货币基金组织把借贷资源增加一倍，达到5千亿美元，以抗击全球的经济危机。
欧盟在布鲁塞尔两天的首脑会议结束时宣布了这项决定。欧盟官员说，与会领导人同意将敦促下个月在伦敦举行的20个工业和新兴国家首脑会议批准增加国际货币基金组织的借贷资源。他们还承诺向国际货币基金组织提供至少1010亿美元新资金。
另一方面，各国领导人还同意增加一倍紧急基金，帮助陷入困境的欧盟东欧成员国，包括匈牙利、拉脱维亚和罗马尼亚等国应对经济危机。
欧盟成员国领导人还审议了一份新的东欧伙伴关系计划，加强同6个前苏联共和国的关系。
European Union leaders have agreed to press for a doubling of the International Monetary Fund’s lending resources for fighting the global economic crisis to $500 billion.
Announcing the decision at the end of a two-day summit in Brussels, EU officials said the leaders agreed to urge next month’s London (G-20) summit of industrialized and emerging nations to approve the increase. They also pledged to provide at least $101 billion in new loans to the fund.
On other issues, the leaders agreed to double the crisis fund to assist struggling Eastern European EU members such as Hungary, Latvia and Romania in dealing with the economic crisis.
The leaders also reviewed a new Eastern Partnership plan for strengthened ties with six former Soviet republics.