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Lithuania tops EU in online news reading
BC, Vilnius, 19.12.2012.
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Print versionJust around one in three French users of the Internet read news online or their favourite newspaper in the last 3 months, which is the lowest rate in the European Union. Lithuania, meanwhile, is the leader, reports LETA/ELTA.
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The EU data revealed that Lithuania leads with 92% of residents catching up with news online, Estonia came second with 91%. The French rate, meanwhile, stood at only 38%.
Finland was the leader for Internet banking with 91% of users. Portugal topped the share of Internet users posting messages to social media, with 75%, while the Czech Republic at 35%, France 40% and Germany 42% were at the bottom of that table, AFP reports.
EU residents most of all use the Internet for sending and receiving emails (89%), also for information search (83%). In total, 61% of EU Internet users read online news, 54% used internet banking services, 52% posted messages on social websites and 50% used the Internet for travel services.
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