Monday, March 25, 2013

Now savings could be raided across Eurozone: Finance chief warns more EU taxpayers could be targeted as Cyprus rescue set to become first of many


Savers in the eurozone could see their bank accounts raided in the struggle to shore up the single currency, a senior EU official warned last night.

The Cyprus rescue package – under which bank customers will have a chunk of their cash seized to bail out troubled lenders – could become a template for dealing with other creaking banking systems, Jeroen Dijsselbloem suggested.

The remarks from the head of the eurozone’s finance ministers contradicted days of assurances that the Cyprus bank deposit raid was a ‘one off’ .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk