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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
Mon Mar 31, 2014, 07:46 PM Mar 2014

Athens bans protests as Greece hosts EU meeting

Source: BBC News

Greek police have banned protests in central Athens ahead of a meeting of EU finance ministers in the capital.

Demonstrators will be barred from areas including Syntagma Square, the focus of recent anti-austerity protests.

EU finance ministers are expected to sign off the next instalment of Greece's bailout when they meet in the city later.

Greece, the current chair of the EU presidency, continues to struggle with high debt and unemployment

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26829120

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Athens bans protests as Greece hosts EU meeting (Original Post) dipsydoodle Mar 2014 OP
I see this ending well. Xithras Mar 2014 #1
It's not the governments, it's the banksters Demeter Mar 2014 #3
Can't let the Plebs and Proles Mix with the Overlords Demeter Mar 2014 #2
 

Demeter

(85,373 posts)
3. It's not the governments, it's the banksters
Mon Mar 31, 2014, 07:54 PM
Mar 2014

They think they OWN the governments, and the police and military will bow to their every whim.

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