..these, 'they' will do or think up next:
Anyone with savings in a Cyprus bank will lose some of their money under a ground-breaking bailout deal agreed by European finance ministers.
Bank customers will pay a levy of up to 9.9% on their savings, a charge which will raise nearly 6bn euros (£5.1bn).
Cyprus is the fifth country to seek a bailout following Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain but the terms of the deal are a radical departure from previous schemes.
EU finance ministers have agreed to lend the indebted island 10bn euros but in return the public will be forced to forfeit part of their savings.
Savers with more than 100,000 euros (£86,500) in the bank will be charged a one-off levy of 9.9%. Those with less will be charged 6.7%.
It will apply to everyone from pensioners to Russian oligarchs, who are alleged to have billions stashed away in what officials say is a bloated Cypriot banking sector.
Cyprus' finance minister Dimitris Sarris said in a statement: "We had to make some very painful decisions - and I believe that looking at the benefit of Cypriots and all the depositors of this age and the next, we took the less painful one.
This ought to cause a run on banks in certain countries, not the ideal solution one would think.
What is the betting that the Cyprus 'officails' have been getting money out for weeks, buying gold, or just shifting it out of the country.
So you never know now what any Gov will do or how safe your money is.
Should be riots over this.
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