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What did really happen at the big meeting about Cyprus? | 28 comments (28 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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Chypre est sauvée, mais la Troïka a du plomb dans l'aile - francetv info Cyprus is saved, but the Troika is in a bad way - francetv info
Dès lundi, 48 heures à peine après l'annonce de l'accord, plusieurs gouvernements de la zone euro ouvrent la voie à des aménagements, voire critiquent à mots couverts le projet pourtant adopté en leur nom. Si Chypre veut "protéger les petits dépôts, il faut l'écouter", déclare ainsi le ministre des Finances français, Pierre Moscovici. "C'est la position que j'ai défendue, face à des positions beaucoup plus dures", ajoute-t-il dans ce qui ressemble fort à une volonté de se désolidariser de certains de ses confrères.On Monday, [18 March] just 48 hours after the announcement of the agreement, several governments in the euro area pave the way for adjustments or criticize in veiled terms the project they had all the same accepted. If Cyprus wants to "protect the small deposits, we must listen" , said the French Finance Minister, Pierre Moscovici. "This is the position I defended, against much harsher positions" he added, in what strongly looks like a desire to dissociate himself from some of his colleagues.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Mar 25th, 2013 at 05:05:55 PM EST
Re: France (4.00 / 3)
Moscovici pas l'étrangleur de Chypre - Europe1.fr - Economie Moscovici not the Cyprus Strangler - Europe1.fr - Economy
Le ministre des Finances français Pierre Moscovici s'est défendu lundi à Stockholm d'être "l'étrangleur du peuple chypriote", et une nouvelle fois condamné les attaques du Parti de gauche à son encontre. En visite dans la capitale suédoise pour rencontrer son homologue Anders Borg, Pierre Moscovici s'est félicité devant la presse que le plan de sauvetage de Chypre écarte la taxation des dépôts bancaires inférieurs à 100.000 euros.The French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici denied on Monday [25 March] in Stockholm that he was the "strangler of the Cypriot people", and once again condemned the attacks of the Left Party against him. Visiting the Swedish capital to meet his counterpart Anders Borg, Pierre Moscovici told the press that he was happy the bailout of Cyprus no longer includes the taxation of bank deposits less than 100,000 euros.
"Il y a une protection des dépôts : ça c'est u principe qui doit être un principe intangible dans l'Union européenne", a-t-il affirmé à la presse. "Cela a toujours été la thèse française, c'est celle que j'ai toujours défendue depuis l'origine, n'en déplaise à ceux qui voient en moi je ne sais quel étrangleur du peuple chypriote, et c'est celle qui a finalement prévalu", a-t-il ajouté."There is a deposit protection: this is a principle that must be an inviolable principle in the European Union," he told reporters. "It has always been the French standpoint, it is the one I always defended from the outset, whether those who see me as some strangler of the Cypriot people like it or not, and that is the view that finally prevailed," he added.

Mélenchon had called Moscovici the strangler of the Cypriot people.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Mar 25th, 2013 at 05:28:06 PM EST
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