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The anti-austerity movement in Spain was fundamentally rooted in resistance to Spain's unopposed right-wing government led by the People's Party. The Citizens Security Law (dubbed the "gag law") that had recently been passed, viewed by protestors as a restriction of civil liberties comparable to the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, was ...
Location of Asturias within Spain. The coal mining industry has played a part in the local economy of the provinces of Asturias and León since the Roman era. [3] The region also has a history of militancy: an uprising in 1934 led by miners took place but was crushed by General Franco; [1] and a miners' strike which began in Asturias in 1962 involved nearly 500,000 workers and was the first ...
The anti-austerity movement refers to the mobilisation of street protests and grassroots campaigns that has happened across various countries, especially in Europe, since the onset of the worldwide Great Recession. Anti-austerity actions are varied and ongoing, and can be either sporadic and loosely organised or longer-term and tightly ...
Podemos (Spanish:, translated in English as "We Can") [c] is a left-wing [14] [15] [16] to far-left [17] [18] [19] political party in Spain.Founded in January 2014 by the political scientist Pablo Iglesias Turrión as part of the anti-austerity movement in Spain, [20] [21] the party is currently led by Secretary-general Ione Belarra.
The government of Spain today released its 2013 budget and outlined the economic reforms it will take to meet the conditions that are sure to be imposed on the country if it should seek a bailout ...
Opinion polls had shown consistent leads for the opposition People's Party (PP) over the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), whose popularity had plummeted after Zapatero's U-turns in economic policy had forced him to adopt tough spending cuts and austerity measures. Massive anti-austerity protests had taken place in May 2011 under ...
Stocks are on the defensive after yesterday's anti-QE3 comments from Fed President Plosser got the selling started. Now we have anti-austerity protests in Spain and Greece trying to reverse the ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Anti-austerity protests in the European Union ... (2 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Austerity" The following 17 pages are in this ...