Cyprus Debt Crisis

• Finance minister says preselling gas reserves could pull Cyprus out of crisis

  Cyprus may presell the country's offshore natural gas reserves to raise cash quickly and pull it out of its deep financial crisis, the country's finance minister said Thursday.

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  May 16, 2013
  
• Cyprus economic action plan: Casinos, land grants for would-be farmers

  Cyprus' president said Friday that the bailed-out country will open casinos and bolster its tourism sector to get the economy going again. State-owned land will also be given to young workers wanting to cultivate it.

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  Apr 19, 2013
  
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• German Parliament approves Cyprus aid package

  The German Parliament on Thursday approved a 10 billion euros ($13 billion) rescue package for Cyprus by a wide margin.

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  Apr 18, 2013
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• Cyprus president to ask EU for more help

  Cyprus' president says he will ask the European Union to provide more help to the crisis-hit country, which has to pay for most of its 23 billion euro ($30 billion) bailout.

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  Apr 12, 2013
• Cyprus bailout swells to $30 billion

  The cost of bailing out Cyprus has swollen to euro 23 billion ($30 billion), with the crisis-hit country having to take on the lion's share of the measures needed to avoid bankruptcy, according to a draft document by the country's international creditors.

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  Apr 11, 2013
• Cyprus government rejects euro area exit

  Cyprus' new finance minister is ruling out any notion that the cash-strapped country will abandon the euro as its currency.

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  Apr 8, 2013
• IMF agrees to its part of Cypriot bailout

  The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday it will contribute 1 billion euros to an overall financial rescue package of 10 billion euros ($12.8 billion) for Cyprus.

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  Apr 3, 2013
• Cypriot Finance Minister Michalis Sarris resigns

  Cypriot Finance Minister Michalis Sarris has resigned following the launch of a government investigation into how the country's economy nearly collapsed last month.

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  Apr 2, 2013
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• Cyprus appoints judges to probe economic crash

  Cyprus' president has appointed a panel of three former supreme court judges to investigate how the country ended up nearly bankrupt.

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  Apr 2, 2013
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• Cyprus banks re-open; limits on transactions

  Banks in Cyprus reopened to customers for the first time in nearly two weeks Thursday.

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  Mar 28, 2013