 Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas has said that he and his coalition government were stepping down after Labor, the biggest government party, withdrew from the minority coalition.Analysts said they now expected lengthy efforts to build a new coalition government, with the possibility of fresh elections if that proved unsuccessful.Whatever government emerges, little change is seen in the pro-western foreign policy of the Baltic state, which joined the European Union and NATO in 2004.Brazauskas, 73, a political veteran in eastern Europe who transformed himself from Lithuania's last communist leader into one of its first democratic presidents and later prime minister, said he was considering retiring from politics....
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