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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
Même atmosphère à Berlin, où chacun semble vouloir renvoyer à son prochain la responsabilité de la taxe honnie : le ministre des Finances allemand, Wolfgang Schäuble, rejette la responsabilité de la taxation des petits épargnants sur le gouvernement chypriote et la BCE. Jörg Asmussen, membre du conseil exécutif de l'institution et son représentant dans les négociations, rétorque que "ce n'est pas la BCE qui a poussé" pour cette option...Same atmosphere in Berlin, where everyone seems to want to pass on to his neighbour the responsibility for the scorned tax: the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, blames the taxation of small investors on the Cypriot government and the ECB. Jörg Asmussen, a member of the executive board of the institution and its representative in the negotiations, replies that "it is not the ECB which pushed" for this option ...
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Mar 25th, 2013 at 05:07:31 PM EST
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