{"id":4314,"date":"2015-01-10T08:06:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4314"},"modified":"2015-01-10T08:06:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:06:08","slug":"eu-austerity-faces-rising-public-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4314","title":{"rendered":"EU austerity faces rising public anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"DetailedTitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2015\/01\/eu-austerity-faces-rising-public-anger-20151881219157639.html\" target=\"_blank\">EU austerity faces rising public anger<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Brussels, Belgium &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Outside the European Commission in Brussels late last month dozens of horn-blowing tractors from Belgium rolled ominously down roads usually reserved for the limousines belonging to this continent&#8217;s powerful politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by throngs of demonstrators and surrounded by smoking hay stacks and burning effigies of leaders such as Germany&#8217;s Angela Merkel, the roughly 4,000 participants had travelled from across the region to protest against a bureaucratic elite that a growing number of Europeans feel have for too long ignored the interests of everyday people.<\/p>\n<p>After half a decade of public spending cuts, job losses, and poor wage growth, Europe is barely emerging from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<p>There are almost 25 million unemployed people still living in the 28-member bloc, inequality is rising in many member states, and the region on Wednesday officially entered a period of deflation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU austerity faces rising public anger Brussels, Belgium &#8211;\u00a0Outside the European Commission in Brussels late last month dozens of horn-blowing tractors from Belgium rolled ominously down roads usually reserved for the limousines belonging to this continent&#8217;s powerful politicians. Accompanied by throngs of demonstrators and surrounded by smoking hay stacks and burning effigies of leaders such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[40,95,279,2535,284,359],"class_list":["post-4314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-austerity","tag-brussels","tag-eu","tag-european-commission","tag-european-union","tag-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}