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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Perspectives - Cyprus: The Mouse That Roared At the Euro Zone “Troika” PrintE-mail

The European Institute – Washington, DC


By J. Paul Horne, Independent International Market Economist, Paris

March 25 2013

The political miscalculation of “Troika” leaders (of the European Commission EC, the European Central Bank ECB, and the IMF) has been dramatized by the Cypriot mouse that roared “No” to what amounted to illegal confiscation of insured savings as the price for bailing out Cyprus. When the Parliament in Nicosia unanimously rejected last week the bailout conditions posed by the Troika, it was embarrassingly forced to withdraw these conditions.

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