Cyprus Gains Support as EU Seeks to Prevent Crisis Flare
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European political chiefs paved the way for finance ministers to wrangle a rescue for Cyprus today as the euro area seeks progress toward a bailout that’s been batted about for nine months.
“I can’t imagine that we’ll let the weekend go by without resolving the Cyprus problem,” Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker said early today after euro leaders met midway through a two-day European Union summit in Brussels. The EU gathering ends today with a 27-nation discussion of foreign policy, to be followed by a euro-area ministers’ meeting.