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The events, which began on 5 May 2010, were provoked by plans to cut public spending and raise taxes as austerity measures in exchange for a €110 billion bail-out, aimed at solving the Greek government-debt crisis. Three people were killed on 5 May in one of the largest demonstrations in Greece since 1973.
15 lut 2017 · We therefore propose to distinguish between three distinct ‘waves’ of anti-austerity protest in Greece which involve different mobilisation patterns. The first wave consists of the anti-austerity mass protest that emerged during 2010 and intensified after the bailout agreement in May (Rüdig and Karyotis, 2014).
This round of demonstrations in Athens took place because of an upcoming measure on austerity, in which the government committed debt suicide. Parliament approves new austerity measures including cutting pensions among other things and raising taxes, inciting mass rioting and looting.
The 2021 Greek protests broke out in response to a proposed government bill that would allow police presence on university campuses for the first time in decades, [2] for which opposition groups accused the government of taking advantage of the COVID-19 lockdown to impose increasingly authoritarian measures. [6]
4 lis 2021 · Since 2010, the world has been shaken by protests. Our analysis of 2809 events reflects an increasing number of protests from 2006 to 2020. Protests occur in all world regions (Table 1) and across all country income levels 1 (Table 2).
Greece, a country severely hit by the economic crisis and experiencing mass protest against unpopular austerity measures, offers an ideal setting to explore how movements evolve and how people mobilise in light of the above debates and of empirical develop-ments.
10 lip 2020 · Lawmakers in Greece have approved a law to curb public protests, prompting a mass demonstration that turned violent. Police responded to gasoline bombs with tear gas and flash grenades.
