This video from the European Parliament says about itself:
Joe Higgins MEP challenges ECB President, Jean-Claude Trichet and EU Economics and Financial Affairs Commissioner, Olli Rehn, over their capitulation to the financial markets allowing them to create a panic in the Irish bond markets forcing the ECB to guarantee their gambling.
From RTÉ News in Ireland:
Thousands march against austerity measures
Updated: 14:27, Saturday, 27 November 2010
A crowd of up to 50,000 people are marching in protest against the introduction of spending cuts and tax increases by the Government.
The RTÉ figures were too low: Ireland bailout protest draws 100,000 to Dublin streets: here. See also here.
Over 100,000 Irish working people turned out in freezing conditions in Dublin on Saturday to show their total opposition to the EU/IMF-led austerity measures: here.
This is a Dutch TV video on the demonstration in Dublin today.
L’Humanité: Ireland in the Clutches of the IMF and Financial Markets: here.
Ireland Responds – Labor Unions Mount Protest; Argentina as an Example (two posts): here.
Debt crisis escalates in Europe; fears grow about Spain: here.
