Sunday, 13 May 2012

Anti-austerity protests continue in Euro cities

 

Spain, hundreds of thousands of people held rallies in 8 cities on Saturday to express their dissatisfaction with high unemployment.Tens of thousands of people have protested in a number of Spanish cities to mark the first anniversary of the “Indignants” movement.Rallies activists marked the one-year anniversary of the founding of the “15 M” movement, with nationwide demonstrations. Protesters took to the streets of Barcelona, with organizers claiming up to 300 thousand people took part.  Central London hundred of protesters  complained that they have to endure austerity measures while a handful of people enjoy the nation’s wealth.A trifle occurred when police officers tried to stop the protesters from setting up tents leading to ten people detention.Many off-duty police officers took to the streets in London on Thursday in a rare display of collective anger against government austerity measures,
Belgian capital Brussels demonstrators shouted that they represent 99 percent of the population. They held up banners that called for reducing the economic gap.
Hungary,  2, 500 far-right supporters marched through the capital Budapest, shouting slogans against the government’s austerity cutbacks. Hungarians are angry about a series of tax hikes and other measures which authorities say are needed to support growth and keep the country’s budget deficit under control.
The protesters  rallied near the offices of the Socialist Party, and later marched over to the headquarters of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party.Jobbik leader Gabor Vona said Fidesz and Socialist governments had economically ruined Hungary in the two decades after the fall of communism, selling out the country to foreign banks,multinational companies, financing the “economic and political mafia” coterie.Briefing end of  the event he called “The Hungarian March of Life,” Vona also criticized gays and the Roma minority and said the country’s Jews were “anti-Hungarian.”
 Protesters held rallies in Portuguese capital Lisbon and Germany’s economic hub, Frankfurt.
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