Sarris: Cyprus has avoided 'disastrous exit from eurozone'

Cyprus has clinched a last-minute solution to imminent financial meltdown by agreeing to take up to almost half of the bank savings of the wealthiest, and avoided a disastrous exit from the eurozone, according to the country's finance minister.

Sarris: Cyprus has avoided 'disastrous exit from eurozone'

Cyprus has clinched a last-minute solution to imminent financial meltdown by agreeing to take up to almost half of the bank savings of the wealthiest, and avoided a disastrous exit from the eurozone, according to the country's finance minister.

In return it secured a €10bn bailout.

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