Energy, EU – Baltic States, Lithuania, Nuclear power plant

Energy Commissioner Guenter Oettinger said Tuesday after an emergency meeting of energy ministers and nuclear regulators there was "general agreement among those who were present today on the carrying out of common stress tests on the basis of common strict standards."

The quick decision came in the wake of Japan's atomic crisis.

Only 13 of the 27 EU nations use nuclear energy but any serious accident would soon involve all.

One of the EU's smaller members, Lithuania, would have to reconsider its plans to build a new nuclear plant and think harder about conventional and alternative energy sources, the country's president said Tuesday.

"Lithuania should have no illusions that it may be able to build something in near future. We have no investor, we have no technologies. It would be very naive nurturing expectations, especially given the current situation and economy crisis, which isn't over yet," President Dalia Grybauskaite told The Associated Press.