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This grab from domestic savings is a new item.

Yet will anyone outside Cyprus, EU or small niche communities like HN take notice ? It is hard to say.

Portugal seized money from pensions (2.5%) and hardly anyone noticed. They called it a "Solidarity Tax"

http://www.portugaldailyview.com/whats-new/press-review-gove...

There has been a lot of head-in-sand citizen behaviour. This lack of alarm is aided by shockingly bad press reporting of the issues.




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