Civil servants join Spain protest
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July 15, 2012, Sunday
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SPANISH civil servants, many dressed in mourning black, took to the streets on Friday in angry protest as the government approved new sweeping austerity measures that include wage cuts and tax increases for a country struggling under a recession and an unemployment rate of near 25 percent.
Spain is under pressure to get its public finances on track amid concerns in the markets over the state of the country's banks and the wider economy.
"Spain is going through one of its most dramatic moments," Deputy Prime Minister Saenz de Santamaria said after a Cabinet meeting at which sales tax hikes and spending cuts were approved.
The conservative government has come under mounting criticism that the austerity measures are hitting the middle and working classes the hardest.
As dusk fell, several hundred mainly young protesters marched in Madrid, stopping to jeer outside the headquarters of the ruling conservative and opposition Socialist parties before heading to the parliament.
Spain is under pressure to get its public finances on track amid concerns in the markets over the state of the country's banks and the wider economy.
"Spain is going through one of its most dramatic moments," Deputy Prime Minister Saenz de Santamaria said after a Cabinet meeting at which sales tax hikes and spending cuts were approved.
The conservative government has come under mounting criticism that the austerity measures are hitting the middle and working classes the hardest.
As dusk fell, several hundred mainly young protesters marched in Madrid, stopping to jeer outside the headquarters of the ruling conservative and opposition Socialist parties before heading to the parliament.
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