塞浦路斯仍为争取纾困挣扎

Cyprus’s embattled president was last night in talks with Brussels and political rivals to ease the terms of a planned levy on smaller deposit holders as he tried to scrape together a parliamentary majority for a €10bn bailout for the debt-laden island.塞浦路斯深陷困境的总统昨晚与欧盟官员和政治对手展开谈判，以期放宽针对较小储户的征税计划，他正在努力争取议会多数通过对这个深陷债务的岛国的100亿欧元纾困。

President Nicos Anastasiades is still intending to raise €5.8bn from Cypriot bank accounts to help fund the bailout, an unprecedented move that has sparked anger in Cyprus and wider concerns about the safety of eurozone bank deposits.尼科斯•阿纳斯塔夏季斯(Nicos Anastasiades)总统仍在寻求向塞浦路斯的银行储户征收58亿欧元资金，从而为此项纾困提供资金支持。这一史无前例的举措在塞浦路斯引起了公愤，也引发了人们对欧元区银行存款安全的普遍担忧。

Cypriot authorities were weighing an additional bank holiday on Tuesday pending emergency parliamentary ratification of the deal, which would mitigate the danger of a bank run. However, officials involved in the talks say a revised deal being discussed in Nicosia, with the blessing of the European Commission, would shift more of the burden on to deposits larger than €100,000.在议会就纾困协议举行紧急表决之前，塞浦路斯当局考虑将周二列为又一个公众假日，以降低银行挤兑风险。然而，参与谈判的官员表示，在欧盟委员会(European Commission)的指导下，尼科西亚正在讨论的一个修订版协议将把更大负担转移到存款高于10万欧元的储户身上。

Under a controversial deal struck with international bailout lenders in the early hours on Saturday, a 6.75 per cent levy would be imposed on all deposits under €100,000 while accounts over that threshold would be hit with 9.9 per cent levy. The levy was demanded by a Germany-led group of creditor countries to reduce the bailout’s pricetag from €17bn.根据上周六凌晨与国际纾困债权人达成的一项具有争议的协议，所有10万欧元以下的存款都将被征收6.75%的税，而10万欧元以上存款的税率则为9.9%。这一征税是由以德国为首的债权人国家群体提出来的要求，旨在降低170亿欧元的纾困总价码。

The parliamentary passage of the levy is in the balance. Several lawmakers from the Democratic party, the junior partner in the governing coalition, have threatened to vote no. The government controls only 28 of 56 seats and is seeking backing from two deputies from a small pro-European party.议会能否通过该征税议案还悬而未决。执政联盟中的小党民主党的几名议员曾威胁要投反对票。政府只控制着56个席位中的28个，正在寻求一个亲欧洲的小党两名代表的支持。