Greek police arrests ten people after demonstration in Athens

 

Greek police arrests ten people after demonstration in Athens

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15:33 04/09/2011

ATHENS, September 4 (RIA Novosti

Ten people have been arrested in Athens after manifestation near the Greek parliament, city police department said on Sunday.

Clashes between the protesters, who are disagree with the governmental economic policy, and police began in early morning on Sunday when police officers decided to push the demonstrators aside from a square near the parliament.

This summer thousands of Greeks protested against the government's austerity measures as the country is in a deep economic turmoil now with debt to gross domestic product ratio nearing 160 percent, Europe's highest.

The new bailout worth 109 billion euros ($155 billion) from the EU come on top of 110 billion euros already granted to Greece by the union in May last year.

Under the guarantees for the bailout, Greece must implement a 50 billion euro privatization program by 2015.

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