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THE EUROGROUP HAS said it is ready to discuss a new proposal with the Cypriot authorities.
In a statement this evening, the Eurogroup said it had held a teleconference, and that following this it “stands ready to discuss with the Cypriot authorities a draft new proposal, which it expects the Cyprus authorities to present as rapidly as possible”.
The Eurogroup would subsequently, on the basis of a Troika analysis that needs to be undertaken, be prepared to continue negotiations in an adjustment programme, while respecting the parameters defined earlier by the Eurogroup. After the conclusion of such negotiations the Cyprus authorities should begin legislating the elements of such an agreement.
The Eurogroup also reaffirmed the importance of fully guaranteeing deposits below €100,000 in the EU, adding that the Euro area member states continue to stand ready to assist the Cypriot people in their reform efforts and ensure the stability of the euro area as a whole.
Also this evening, Sky News reports that Cyprus’s second biggest lender has limited cash withdrawals.
Meanwhile, employees of Laiki Bank are among those who took part in an anti-bailout protest outside the Cypriot parliament in Nicosia today.
RTÉ reports that a bill has been submitted to the country’s parliament that would allow capital controls to be imposed on banks.
Banks will remain closed until Tuesday. Earlier today, Bank of Cyprus said that it urged a bailout deal to save the island from ruin.
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Why didn’t they test it on themselves?
@Derek o keeffe: Because like most clinical trials this one was carried out on mice to gauge reactions/side effects..
Without such trials the average human life expectancy would still be somewhere between 35/55 and we wouldn’t have the vast majority of the current life saving Cancer and AIDS treatments to mention just two…
@Derek o keeffe: a better question is why they didn’t test it on you.
Cannabis works on pain as well oh thats right big pharmaceuticals cant profit off that though.Cannabis is one of the biggest break throughs in medicine but our media seem to ignore it.
Can you “milk” the fish for venom, package it and sell it to people? Asking for a friend.
‘The Fang Blennies’….weren’t they a pop group back in the 80′s?
Is the venom addictive like current opioids? If so what’s the big deal?
Stooooooory bud!!! Ya got any of them fishes the ones with da gear man for me girlfriend like it’s her beerday tomorra!! On tick of course bud scratcher end of the week bud… (over heard in pet shop in Dublin city centre )
What’s the point. Patients still can’t get the medicinal cannabis that could help them.
It’s not IF we lose the Great Barrier Reef it’s WHEN. Better stock up on tanks pumps and protein skimmers all of which will require a lot of fossil fuel generated electricity to run if we want to keep the blenny inter alia.
Mind it’s probably moot given the mindless approach of governments and society to date towards natural painkillers and cancer killing substances. If it actually delivers a useful result he blenny will probably be banned by law.
Do they feel pain themselves I wonder?
I foresee growth in aquarium stockist shops
Were the mice drugged or did they just drown?
Does this come in the form of fish fingers?
Big Bryan Fry experimenting with Small Blenny Fry. The outcome a numbing experience.
You can get bags of it down the quays already
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The happiest fish going lol.
Brilliant, another drug all the social degenerates can get addicted to once it gets licensed!!!
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