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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
In mid May 2012, the crisis and impossibility to form a new government after elections and the possible victory by the anti-austerity axis led to new speculations Greece would have to leave the eurozone shortly. [91] [92] [93] This phenomenon became known as "Grexit" and started to govern international market behaviour.
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 ...