Eu Bailout

Orthodox Church Offers To Help Pay For Cyprus Bailout

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 21.03.2013 | UK

The Orthodox Church of Cyprus has said it is prepared to mortgage its property portfolio to help overcome political deadlock in the island's bailout c...

Cypriot Parliament Rejects Levy On Savers Bank Deposits

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 19.03.2013 | UK

The financial future of Cyprus is in turmoil after the country's parliament voted down plans to impose a levy on savers' bank deposits that were impos...

RAF Flight Carrying One Million Euros Heads To Cyprus

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 19.05.2013 | UK

A plane carrying one million euros (£852,600) has been sent to Cyprus as a "contingency measure" to help troops and their families. The Ministry o...

Cyprus Savings Raid Hits The Markets

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 18.03.2013 | UK

Stock markets fell sharply on Monday amid fears that an unprecedented levy on bank deposits in Cyprus will plunge Europe back into crisis. There ha...

Government Will Compensate Military Personnel Affected By Cyprus Bailout Levy

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 18.03.2013 | UK

Chancellor George Osborne said the Government will compensate any British Government and military personnel whose bank accounts in Cyprus may be affec...

History's Lessons for Greece

Joseph Yackley | Posted 28.05.2012 | UK Politics
Joseph Yackley

Europe may have averted imminent disaster last month with its €130 billion bailout of Greece. But in this latest stopgap, European officials are repeating many of the mistakes their forebears made more than a century ago in their handling of debt crises in southern neighbours.