We are not the first generation to face austerity.
Greece staring default in the face, austerity takes a devastating toll, and euro leaders bicker.
With or without Berlusconi, the citizens of Italy still face Austerity policy at work: cuts in the social welfare, childcare, education, research, pensions, and the mutilation of one of the best health care systems in the world.
ATHENS — The finance minister of Greece, Evangelos Venizelos, assumed the leadership of the country's embattled Socialist Party, known as Pasok, on Sunday as the country's political parties prepared to face austerity-weary voters in a general election that is expected in late April or early May.
TO LEAD SOCIALIST PARTY The finance minister of Greece, Evangelos Venizelos, assumed the leadership of the country's embattled Socialist Party, known as Pasok, as the country's political parties prepared to face austerity-weary voters in a general election that is expected in late April or early May.
Young people like us who are facing austerity cuts to vital youth services and maintenance grants have been ignored.
Yet the temptation in many allied capitals facing austerity is to try and balance their defense budgets on the backs of this common budget.
Perhaps it is a sign that the deal is well crafted, but it seems unpopular both in Greece, where people are facing austerity, and elsewhere in Europe, where the costs will be high.
It's clear that even a tiny fraction of that amount, if directed to local development projects, could make a huge difference, especially with many donor agencies facing austerity budgets.
"The Leave of the United Kingdom sets forth the failure of political communities facing austerity, and the egotism of the member states, incapable of being a community … We want a Europe which is a 'community' and not a union of banks and lobbies," said the party, writing on the blog of founder Beppe Grillo.
Corporate power and greed, demonstrated by tax evasion and soaring executive remuneration, are a major source of social inequality and anxiety as senior managers come to lead lives ever more remote from those of countless workers and their families facing austerity and pay cuts.
