PARIS: A German budget airliner crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday with 150 people on board declared dead.
It was one of the worst aviation disasters in the European Union in the past 20 years:
2015
March 24: FRANCE - An Airbus A320 airliner belonging to Lufthansa's low-cost Germanwings crashes en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf in the French Alps. France says all 150 people on Flight 4U 9525 died. Germanwings says they included at least 67 Germans, of whom 16 were schoolchildren, as well as Spaniards and Turks.
2008
August 20: SPAIN An MD82 plane owned by Spanish low cost company Spanair crashes and turns into a fireball while taking off at Madrid for the Canary Islands, killing 154 people.
2005
August 14: GREECE A Boeing belonging to Cyprus company Helios crashes near Athens, killing 121 people.
2001
October 8: ITALY A collision between an MD87 belonging to Scandinavian airline SAS and a private Cessna plane in the fog at MilanLinate airport leaves 118 dead.
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Cash-strapped Greece wants the European Union's rescue fund to return 1.2 billion (NZ$1.8 billion) unduly handed over by Athens, a source with knowledge of the issue says.
"Eurogroup President (Jeroen) Dijsselbloem has asked the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) to provide an analysis of the matter. Also, he has asked the Chairman of the Eurogroup Working Group to take the issue up at short notice," a spokesperson of the European Financial Stability Facility told AFP.
Greece's new radical government in February was obliged to return to the EFSF 10.9 billion ($15.58 billion) that remained unused in a rescue fund created for the recapitalisation of Greek banks.
However, the new hard-left leaders later realised that the previous conservative-socialist government had used 1.2 billion to support the banks from another source, the Hellenic stability fund.
Though relatively small, the sum is currently vital to the new government.
Greece is facing a cash squeeze until the summer caused by the non-delivery of promised EU-IMF loans since the radical government came to power in January promising to roll back austerity reforms.
Greece's creditors have made it clear that no funds remaining in the 240-billion-euro bailout will be disbursed until Athens presents a credible reform blueprint.
The EFSF was created in 2010 to provide financial assistance to Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
It was later replaced by the permanent European Stability Mechanism.
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