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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10580

23 March 2012
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) portugal
General strike in protest at austerity measures

Brussels, le 22/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 22 March, Portugal experienced its first general strike this year, called by the country's biggest trade union, the CGTP, in protest at the austerity measures introduced by the government since the approval of the country's international aid package by the troika (European Commission, ECB and IMF) in May 2011. The trade unions are particularly disgusted at the government's plan to reform the labour code to extend the working week, and to...

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