Medvedev ci ricorda come l'Unione Europea, che spesso viene erroneamente comparata come progetto agli Stati Uniti d'America, sia molto più simile all'Unione Sovietica, e se lo dice lui.....
"I don't know if we need this treaty in this case. The question of its cancellation ... could come up," he said. "So I say again: it's necessary to act with the utmost care."
The proposed bank levy, rejected by the Cypriot parliament on Tuesday, had a "clearly confiscatory, expropriating character," RIA quoted him as saying - remarks that echo earlier criticism by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It was, Medvedev said, "absolutely unprecedented".
He added: "I can only compare it some of the decisions taken ... by Soviet authorities, who did not give a thought to the savings of the population."
link: reuters
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