Home » News » Anti-austerity protests sweep across Europe (AP)

Anti-austerity protests sweep across Europe (AP)

September 29th, 2010

Pickets run after lighting fires to block a highway in Vigo, Spain during a nationwide general strike organized by the Spanish unions, in Madrid, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Spanish workers staged a general strike Wednesday to protest austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession. . (AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar)AP - Anti-austerity protests erupted across Europe on Wednesday — Greek doctors and railway employees walked out, Spanish workers shut down trains and buses, and one man even blocked the Irish parliament with a cement truck to decry the country’s enormous bank bailouts.


Tags: Antiausterity, sweep, Europe, across, Protests

Related posts:

  1. Anti-govt protests sweep Kyrgyzstan, 17 said dead (AP)
  2. Anti-govt protests sweep Kyrgyzstan, 100 said dead (AP)
  3. 3 dead as anti-austerity riots erupt in Athens (AP)
  4. Child abuse claims sweep Catholic Church in Europe (AP)
  5. Romanian govt in uproar amid austerity protests (AP)

Want To Provide Some Feedback?


Next Item: Spain arrests American al-Qaida suspect (AP)
Previous item: Terrorist plot uncovered in Europe (AP)
Back to the Front Page