Meanwhile, the electoral clock keeps ticking towards the parliamentary and presidential elections due in less than two years.

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With a 8.5 million euro debt payment due in mid-May, the EU is fighting the clock at the moment.

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According to Andrew Ross Sorkin on MSNBC this morning, the clock is ticking for the feds to charge Cohen due to a statute of limitations on these charges set to expire this July.

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