Debt crisis: Eurozone faces day of anti-austerity strikes

Another day in Europe with new strikes and protests. People are pissed off, but still seem to fail understanding, you can’t life beyond your means. Austerity bites hard. From The Telegraph.

General strikes in Spain and Portugal will spearhead a “European Day of Action and Solidarity” called by unions in the region.

Unions in Greece and Italy also planned work stoppages and demonstrations against austerity policies, which labour leaders blame for prolonging and worsening the continent’s economic crisis.

For Spain, the eurozone’s fourth-largest economy where one in four workers is unemployed in a deep recession, it is the second general strike in eight months in protest against draconian budget cuts.

Spain’s main CCOO and UGT unions have urged people to rally under slogans such as “They are taking away our future!”, deploying pickets during the night at airports, bus and railway stations.

Activists alerted social networks of an evening rally outside the parliament in Madrid. (Full article here)