Brussels, 18/04/2013 (Agence Europe) - The German parliament voted on Thursday 18 April by a wide majority in favour of the Cypriot financial bailout from the European stability mechanism (ESM).
On the day of the vote, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said that the troika (European Commission, ECB and IMF) “consider the fate of Nicosia relevant to the Eurozone”. Some German parliamentarians had wondered whether the Cypriot economy, which is only 0.2% of the eurozone in terms...