EU countries had warned they would withhold 10 billion euros ($13 billion) in bailout loans unless depositors in Cyprus, including small savers, shared the cost of the rescue, an unprecedented step in the stubborn debt crisis.
The European Central Bank had threatened to end emergency lending assistance for teetering Cypriot banks, which were hard hit by the financial crisis in neighboring Greece.
The island's partners barely disguised their anger.
Euro zone paymaster Germany, facing an election this year and increasingly frustrated with the mounting cost of bailing out its southern partners, said Cyprus had no one to blame but itself for the gravity of the situation.
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塞浦路斯议会周二以压倒性多数票拒绝了以征收存款税为附加条件的欧元区援助计划,国际社会为拯救塞浦路斯这个欧债危机最新“遇难国”所付出的努力也陷入泥淖。
塞浦路斯议会的投票令拥有17个成员国的欧元区深感挫败,惹恼了欧洲伙伴,也让人们更加担心危机会扩散。在过去三年中,为确保获得欧洲援助,希腊、葡萄牙、爱尔兰、西班牙和意大利都接受了紧缩措施。
数百名示威者在议会外高喊“他们在吸我们的血”,执政党投票弃权,其他36名议员一致投票反对,这将这个地中海岛国,也是欧洲最小的国家之一推向金融崩溃的边缘。
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