Britain's Cameron urges decisive plan for Greece

(BRUSSELS) - British Prime Minister David Cameron called on eurozone countries to come up with a decisive plan for debt-stricken Greece at a European Union summit Wednesday.

Cameron also urged the 17 countries that use the euro to take longer-term action, including allowing the European Central Bank to stabilise the troubled single currency.

"What we need is a decisive plan for Greece, and we need decisive plans to help get the European economies moving," Cameron told reporters in Brussels.

"But if we're not going to keep coming back and back to meetings like this we also need to deal with some of the longer term issues at the heart of running a successful single currency: having a bank that gets behind that single currency, having coherent long-term plans to make sure that single currency is coherent.

"We have to address those issues too or these crises will keep re-occuring."

Britain does not use the euro but the eurozone is its biggest trading partner and the crisis has hit the British economy, which is currently in a double-dip recession.

Cameron's comments on Europe have in the past antagonised some of his EU peers, especially after he kept Britain out of an EU fiscal treaty in December.