In the end it was hardly even a stroll, let alone the widely predicted run on the banks of Cyprus.

Commentators had been confident that as soon as the banks reopened on Thursday at noon after Cyprus signed a rescue deal with the European Union to stave off national bankruptcy, there would be scenes of chaos.

The experts were right, but it wasn’t the Cypriots causing the pandemonium.

Television crews from around the world crowded into tiny Eleftheria Square in central Nicosia, the … [Read More]

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Source: VOA News: War and Conflict