
“Standing in front of a cash machine on a street corner in Nicosia, Andreas Christou could hardly contain his fury. ‘My money is in there and they won’t let me take it out!’ he said, a few moments after withdrawing a paltry €100 – the maximum allowable after a draconian new capital control measure was introduced on Sunday. The 52-year-old businessman holds an account with Laiki Bank, the hardest hit of Cyprus’s debt-laden lenders. It will now effectively be dissolved under the terms of a deal brokered between international creditors and Nicos Anastasiades, the president of Cyprus, during marathon talks in Brussels.”
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