Greek workers erupted in fury and the government wobbled after the country’s foreign creditors demanded more budget cuts in exchange for a bail-out that is needed to ward off what could be a disorderly default next month…
“We were robbed of our dignity, we were humiliated. I can’t take this. I won’t allow it,” Mr Karatzaferis said, adding that Greece “could do without the German boot.”
Laos has just 16 of the 300 seats in parliament and analysts were generally confident that the measures would be passed. Yet they were watching for defections from the main socialist and centre-right parties as unions called strikes and tried to ratchet up the political pressure… (more)
