Landon Thomas Jr.
Landon Thomas Jr. is a financial correspondent for The New York Times based in London. He joined the paper in 2002 as a Wall Street reporter. He previously worked at New York magazine, The New York Observer and Smart Money magazine.
Updated: 22 April 2010
Eager to join the European Union, Montenegro is cleaning up its image of corruption and pulling out all the stops to attract foreign capital. 
Severely affected by the economic crisis, no other country, apart from Ireland, has effected more severe public spending cuts than Lithuania. While austerity has yet to elicit the same level of protest as seen in Greece or in Spain, it has had a tremendous personal and social cost.