Anti-Austerity Protests Hit Europe
Madrid, Spain (AHN) – Protesters marched on the streets of European cities on Wednesday to air their opposition to their governments’ spending cuts as a nationwide strike in Spain crippled Madrid and Barcelona.
Protesters in Greece, Italy, Ireland and Latvia blamed banks and traders for the global financial crisis and for victimizing workers. Many EU governments have cut wages, pensions and employment opportunities to address skyrocketing debts.
Union workers marched towards the barricaded European Union headquarters and other EU buildings in Brussels, Belgium and held a noise barrage.
In Dublin, the European Trade Union Confederation claimed that the financial crisis has caused 23 million people across the EU to lose their jobs and warned that more will be jobless due to austerity measures being implemented by governments.
In Barcelona, strikers clashed with police and burned police cars while shops did not open for business.
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