Some countries are experiencing persistent extreme austerity and have needed bailouts from international financial authorities to manage their spiralling deficits and debt [ 2].
Police were called and the protesters, who included persistent anti-austerity activists Sean Clerkin and Piers Doughty-Brown, left the building to protest further from the street outside.
Niyama (The five "observances"): Śauca (purity, clearness of mind, speech and body), Santosha (contentment, acceptance of others and of one's circumstances), Tapas (persistent meditation, perseverance, austerity), Svādhyāya (study of self, self-reflection, study of Vedas), and Ishvara-Pranidhana (contemplation of God/Supreme Being/True Self).
At a time of grinding austerity and persistent unemployment across Europe, minorities and migrants are facing a growing political and economic backlash.
Mr. Sócrates faces persistent concerns about whether Portugal, hobbled by an austerity budget, can meet its economic and deficit-cutting goals.
Pointing to persistent unemployment, evictions and growing inequality, Iglesias's promises to reverse austerity and tackle corruption have struck a chord.
Since his leadership began he has tempered his Europhobia, but there is a persistent strand of leftish Euroscepticism that has been given added passion by the impact of austerity in the eurozone.
Briefly, though, the most persistent and at the same time most confused accusation is that the IMF insists on austerity during country-debt crises.This simply confuses correlation and causality.
"He was persistent in supporting and saying that the public has the right to revolt if unfair austerity measures are imposed on them," says Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis, an expert on Greek politics at the London School of Economics.
