Due to savings in the social sector and the upcoming reform of social assistance, significant consequential costs for society could arise, social organizations warned on Tuesday.

Mass protests against austerity measures drew hundreds of thousands of participants in France on Thursday. The CGT union said more than 1 million people took part in demonstrations, although the ...

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September has been a month of dramatic unrest in France, even by the standards of its protest-happy political culture. Prime Minister François Bayrou was ousted by a vote of no confidence in the ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Thousands of protesters marched in Romania ’s capital on Wednesday, demanding higher wages, measures to curb inflation and tax reductions for workers as the government pushes ...

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ATHENS, Greece — Greece will suspend more civil servants than originally planned and impose new pension cuts as part of more austerity measures, the government said Wednesday, as it tried to persuade ...

Last week, the Greek government announced a series of painful austerity measures aimed at tackling a budget crisis so serious, it once seemed like the entire country could go bankrupt. Likening the ...

Teachers in the eastern European nation of nearly 19 million have threatened to go on strike if the government implements the ...