Economy
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Offshore Leaks : ‘Storm hits islands hiding illegal treasure’
5 April 2013465PresseuropTa Nea -
Offshore Leaks : ‘Thunder over tax havens’
5 April 2013871PresseuropTribune de Genève -
Offshore Leaks : Tax havens are killing our democracies
4 April 2013195640 Le Monde Paris -
Tax havens: ‘The riches’ tricks’
4 April 201324PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Unemployment: ‘What is destroying Europe’
3 April 2013281226PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Romania: ‘Bank of Cyprus pulls down shutters for a week while seeking buyer’
2 April 201327PresseuropZiarul Financiar -
Slovakia: ‘Slovakia is a world power in automobile production’
2 April 20136448PresseuropPravda -
Portugal: ‘Portugal is the only rescued country where deposits have grown’
2 April 2013763PresseuropDiário económico -
United Kingdom: ‘£1bn plan to put Britain on the road to recovery’
2 April 201349PresseuropThe Times -
Cyprus: ‘You have the euro... and we have civilisation’
29 March 2013656PresseuropPolitis -
France: ‘75% tax: Hollande to make companies pay’
29 March 2013656PresseuropLes Echos -
Spain: ‘Rajoy to seek Brussels’ flexibility to increase deficit to 6%’
29 March 20135327PresseuropEl País -
European union: ‘Can this woman save Europe?’
29 March 20138911PresseuropTime -
Eurozone crisis: Time to abolish the tax havens
28 March 2013929115 El País Madrid -
Eurozone crisis: ‘Europe agonises over the crisis’
28 March 20131934PresseuropDie Presse -
Cyprus: ‘A dribble of cash’
28 March 201316PresseuropPolitis -
United Kingdom: Cypriot lessons in courting the Russian Bear
27 March 20131404 The Guardian London -
Poland: ‘Slovaks have a run-in with us’
27 March 20134223PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Eurozone: ‘You should not always be honest in Brussels’
27 March 20134825PresseuropNRC Handelsblad -
France: ‘Government powerless to stop rising unemployment’
27 March 2013715PresseuropLe Figaro -
Latvia: Cypriot crisis is a boon for “Switzerland of the Baltic”
26 March 20131227PresseuropHospodářské Noviny -
Cyprus: Money-laundering audit casts shadow over bailout
26 March 2013601PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Cyprus: ‘Cyprus avoids being expelled from Eurozone’
26 March 2013204PresseuropNezavissimaïa Gazeta -
Cyprus: ‘Merkel’s pawn considers Cypriot haircuts elsewhere’
26 March 20132917PresseuropEl Mundo -
Cyprus: ‘The dwarf has been saved, but the giant is trembling’
26 March 2013296PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Cyprus: ‘The €9.2bn heist’
26 March 2013263PresseuropO Phileleftheros -
Cyprus: ‘Eurozone shifts burden of risk from taxpayers to investors’
26 March 2013503PresseuropFinancial Times -
Cyprus: “This is the start of the Road to Calvary”
25 March 201315072 O Phileleftheros Nicosia -
Cyprus: ‘Euro rescuers close down their first bank’
25 March 20133711PresseuropHandelsblatt -
Poland: ‘PO-PIS Constitutional?’
25 March 2013442PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Cyprus: ‘30% haircut for the Bank of Cyprus’
25 March 20134413PresseuropPolitis -
Cyprus: ‘Europe ends in Cyprus’
22 March 2013575PresseuropInternazionale -
Cyprus: ‘Just when you thought it was safe...’
22 March 2013199PresseuropThe Economist -
Eurozone crisis: ‘EU gives Cyprus an ultimatum to avoid it leaving the euro’
22 March 2013147PresseuropEl País -
Cyprus: The other guy’s always to blame
21 March 2013301128 Frankfurter Rundschau Frankfurt -
European Union: How Europe’s leaders ran out of credit in Cyprus
21 March 201325220 Financial Times London -
Cyprus: ‘Cyprus awaits fresh loan from Moscow’
21 March 2013242PresseuropNezavissimaïa Gazeta -
Spain: ‘Spanish banking levy will collect €3bn’
21 March 2013155PresseuropExpansión -
Cyprus: ‘Everyone to participate in bailout fund’
21 March 2013273PresseuropPolitis -
United Kingdom: ‘Drown your sorrows’
21 March 2013191PresseuropThe Guardian -
Belgium: ‘No mercy for small-time tax evaders’
20 March 201334PresseuropDe Standaard -
United Kingdom: ‘Osborne poised for bleak Budget’
20 March 201323PresseuropFinancial Times -
Cyprus: ‘Russian roulette with Brussels’
20 March 201337PresseuropPolitis -
Cyprus: ‘The dramatic ‘no’ from Cyprus’
20 March 2013221PresseuropEleftherotypia -
Cyprus: ‘Fear of a massive capital flight due to the ‘Cyprus effect’’
20 March 201330PresseuropEl Economista -
Eurozone: ‘Long faces in Cyprus’
19 March 201330PresseuropDie Welt -
Aviation: ‘Airbus, a symbol of winning European industry’
19 March 2013355PresseuropLes Echos -
Cyprus: ‘Crime and punishment’
19 March 20132814PresseuropTa Nea -
CYPRUS: ‘They’re looking for a plan B’
19 March 2013272PresseuropO Phileleftheros -
Slovakia: ‘Cyprus taxes take our millions. That is going to stop’
19 March 201338PresseuropPravda
A major investigation of leaked data undertaken by several newspapers including Le Monde has highlighted the vast international scale of offshore banking. For the French daily’s editorial director, it should be viewed as a warning that our political systems are under threat. 
The Cyprus crisis has shone a spotlight on the special tax status of the island in the eurozone. That status, though, is not very different from that of other European countries, like Luxembourg or the Channel Islands: aberrations that should purely and simply be abolished. 
Cyprus is not the only island nation to roll out the red carpet for Russia’s riches. Since the Soviet Union’s collapse, London has welcomed Russian expatriates who made their fortunes plundering the collapsing state, but at what cost, asks a British journalist.
In an open letter to his compatriots, a Cypriot scientist calls on the citizens of the island to show patriotism, and to roll up their sleeves for an independent initiative to save their banking system, so that they can turn the page as quickly as possible on the aid plan negotiated on 25 March in Brussels. 
Greedy banks, the EU or Angela Merkel: The search for the culprit in Cyprus is running along the usual fault lines of the euro crisis. But do individuals not share in the responsibility for the mistakes of their society? That would mean the Cypriots would have to give up some of their savings deposits. 
The bigger problem remains the gap in trust between the north and the south, writes a Financial Times columnist.