Parliament in Nicosia Tuesday rejected a plan to tax savings in Cypriot banks stipulated in the EU/IMF 10 billion euro bailout deal. Banks stay closed until Thursday. Eurozone ministers advised Cyprus to move the tax burden – 7% on depositors of up to 100,000 euros, away from small savers. This would leave the big investors exposed to the tax - many of them Russians who used the island as an offshore or money laundering site. President Vladimir Putin said it is “unfair and sets a dangerous precedent,” but this precedent has also sent uneasy waves through the European banking system.