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Instead of stepping out into the world, many young adults are moving back in with family. "How can someone who makes 300 euros a month ever be independent?" one unemployed 24-year-old asks.
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A bed company is selling a mattress that has an armored safe hidden in one end for people who may be wary of Spain's troubled banking system.
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New restrictions on big depositors are controversial, and there's no consensus on the efficacy of the country's strategy. Besides affecting Cyprus' economy, the new measures could become a template for other eurozone countries. Selective restrictions might create a tiered system within the bloc.
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Cypriots face tough restrictions on how much money they can withdraw. And the island nation's economy, which is based on financial services, faces the prospect of having to start over again.
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You'd be free to leave the state, as long as you left your money behind. That's essentially what it's like now for people in Cyprus.
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The special administrator is charged with overseeing the bank's restructuring and the absorption of a smaller Cypriot bank.
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The $13 billion bailout has some tough conditions. It is aimed at shoring up the island nation's banking sector and making sure its problems don't spread to other nations. But many Cypriots think their creditors have other intentions.
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The Mediterranean island nation was hoping for new terms on an existing loan and a new line of credit from Moscow to help it stave off default.
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The central bank says it will cut off a financial lifeline in four days if Cypriot lawmakers can't agree on a deal to raise $7.5 billion to prop up the country's banks.
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When you add up all the country's banks, they don't even match the 30th largest bank in the U.S. But people all over the world have good reason to be freaked out over what's happened there this week.