One day ahead of a European general strike, the Greeks started on Tuesday a 48-hour riot against the planned cuts and tax rises that the Government intends to implement in order to prevent the massive increase of this country’s debt.
Around 2,000 protesters representing teachers from the public sector marched past the finance ministry as well as the parliament, according to the information provided by the local police.
Wage freezes, pension cuts and fee rises are a few of the drastic measures to be applied, aiming to lower Greece’s public deficit to less than 3% of GDP by 2014.
The EU will provide 80 billion euros in funding, while the rest, up to 110 billion, will come from the International Monetary Fund.
However, this plan must first be approved by parliaments in 15 other European countries.
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