Cyprus also holds a more general lesson: Given the extreme reaction of financial markets to the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, it had become axiomatic among European policymakers that no bank should be allowed to become insolvent. But financial markets reacted calmly to the news that, for the first time, even depositors in a bank in the European Union will lose part of their money (and this was noted with glee in Berlin and elsewhere in northern Europe).
塞浦路斯也得到了一个更普遍的教训：考虑到2008年金融市场对雷曼兄弟公司倒闭所作的极端反应，欧洲决策者达成了不能允许任何银行破产的共识。但金融市场第一次对欧盟某个银行的储户将会失去其部分存款这一新闻反应平静（在柏林和北欧一些地方这个消息被高兴地指了出来）。