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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10808

17 March 2013
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EUROGROUP DECIDES ON CYPRUS AID PLAN
(AE) CYPRUS: Tough political agreement on aid for Cyprus

Brussels, 16/03/2013 (Agence Europe) - After nearly ten hours of talks, eurozone finance ministers managed in the early hours of Saturday morning 16 March to agree on a broad financial aid plan for Cyprus, requested in June 2012 and set in the end at €10 billion.

It took the new conservative Cypriot government of Nicos Anastasiades, which came to power on 1 March, a fortnight to get the eurozone and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to agree on aid after they had dragged their feet for...