Cypriot students protest in Brighton at bank crisis (From The Argus)
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Cypriot students protest in Brighton at bank crisis
7:10pm Thursday 21st March 2013 in News
Cypriot students protesting in Brighton
Students from Cyprus fear they may be forced to cut their studies short because of the country’s bailout crisis.
More than 50 marched through the streets of Brighton and Hove yesterday (March 20) in protest at the financial disaster gripping their homeland.
Earlier this week the Cypriot parliament rejected a plan to impose a levy on bank deposits in order to raise cash towards a €10bn EU bailout offer.
But students said they were worried the raid on their savings would still happen. Panayiota Alexandrou, 21, a final year student at the University of Brighton, said: “A lot of people are considering going home because they can’t afford to carry on.
"Most of us have money sent to us by our parents and many of us are using Cypriot accounts.
“The people that don’t have any UK accounts can’t access their money because the banks are shut.”
More than 300 families from Cyprus live in Brighton and Hove.
Flora Papanicolaou, secretary of Brighton and Hove Greek Orthodox Church, said: “There are a lot of elderly people from Cyprus in Brighton that have property and savings back home. And most people still can’t access their money. People are furious.”
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Comments(24)
fredaj
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7:28pm Thu 21 Mar 13
I think pretty much everyone in the UK is watching what is happening in Cyprus with abject horror.
george smith
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7:48pm Thu 21 Mar 13
funkyyoyo
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8:06pm Thu 21 Mar 13
yaddab
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10:04pm Thu 21 Mar 13
notaconspiracy
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10:40pm Thu 21 Mar 13
What I mean is : pointless!
Dave At Home
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10:59pm Thu 21 Mar 13
MuammarQaddafi
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12:00am Fri 22 Mar 13
g.
lordenglandofsussex
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7:31am Fri 22 Mar 13
still waiting
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8:27am Fri 22 Mar 13
Cave Johnson
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8:37am Fri 22 Mar 13
nosolution
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8:53am Fri 22 Mar 13
ing students disrupting peoples lives and bringing the town to a halt.Oh yes it's the start of the protest season.Yawn.Seeing as they are meant to be the brighter slice of people surely students sould think of a more original way of telling other people what they want them to hear(whether they are interested or not)
Morpheus
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9:06am Fri 22 Mar 13
On_the_Level
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9:27am Fri 22 Mar 13
ssopho
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9:28am Fri 22 Mar 13
lordenglandofsussex wrote:Please go get your military from akrotiri and dhekelia rather than using cyprus as a spying took! What the hell is that comment you posted, you disgust me...
Please go back and protest in your country rather than using Britain as a loud speaker.
ssopho
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9:29am Fri 22 Mar 13
lordenglandofsussex wrote:Please go get your military from akrotiri and dhekelia rather than using cyprus as a spying tool! What the hell is that comment you posted, you disgust me...
Please go back and protest in your country rather than using Britain as a loud speaker.
kopite_rob
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9:38am Fri 22 Mar 13
The new Chinese Premiers first overseas meeting is with Putin.
Considering they're both cash rich and have appalling freedoms and rights records I guess the new "Cold War" will involve buying out the debts of the West, while handing out Nuclear capability to any rogue state they like either directly or via the black market.
HJarrs
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9:42am Fri 22 Mar 13
I can quite understand the reluctance in Brussels and the Bundestag about bailing out Russian gangsters with public money. The wealthy should forfeit a proportion of their loot, little of which will have seen the tax man.
Some people should be careful what they wish for. If the Euro goes down so too does the pound.
Roundbill
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11:21am Fri 22 Mar 13
Sarah Booker Lewis
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11:59am Fri 22 Mar 13
Roundbill wrote:The picture has not been edited to crop anyone out. It is a standard landscape shot.
I wondered what this lot were doing, when I went past on the bus. Why have all the ones on the right who were making Nazi salutes been edited out of the picture?
ssopho
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4:43pm Fri 22 Mar 13
Morpheus wrote:"Britain to make up for the non-payment of rent on its sovereign bases, is appealing." quotes from the economist. 2nd we pay 9000 a year only on fee's to your gov. 3rd we have bank account back home because it is only way our parens can get money to us in the UK. So as a normal caring human being yes you should care, because when we go bust the UK will hurt by it too!
I assume those living her with bank accounts "back home" are not paying tax here. Should we care?
Roundbill
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11:41pm Fri 22 Mar 13
Sarah Booker Lewis wrote:Well there were definitely about 10 of them making Nazi salutes when I was there - I assumed it was something to do with Golden Dawn, or an expression of solidarity with Giorgos Katidis. Are students allowed to display such abhorrent behaviour in public now?
Roundbill wrote:The picture has not been edited to crop anyone out. It is a standard landscape shot.
I wondered what this lot were doing, when I went past on the bus. Why have all the ones on the right who were making Nazi salutes been edited out of the picture?
ssopho
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8:02am Sat 23 Mar 13
Roundbill wrote:IT was not nazi saluts, just their hand up written NO on the palm of their hands. And we are going to have another peaceful protest.
Sarah Booker Lewis wrote:Well there were definitely about 10 of them making Nazi salutes when I was there - I assumed it was something to do with Golden Dawn, or an expression of solidarity with Giorgos Katidis. Are students allowed to display such abhorrent behaviour in public now?
Roundbill wrote:The picture has not been edited to crop anyone out. It is a standard landscape shot.
I wondered what this lot were doing, when I went past on the bus. Why have all the ones on the right who were making Nazi salutes been edited out of the picture?
Somethingsarejustwrong
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10:31pm Sun 24 Mar 13
HJarrs wrote:Just make it up as you go along, why don't you?
Good luck to the ordinary Cypriots. They are just as much victims as ordinary Brits, Greeks, Italians etc.
I can quite understand the reluctance in Brussels and the Bundestag about bailing out Russian gangsters with public money. The wealthy should forfeit a proportion of their loot, little of which will have seen the tax man.
Some people should be careful what they wish for. If the Euro goes down so too does the pound.
nocando says...
7:27pm Thu 21 Mar 13
Your best bet is the Russians.