Tindak Anarkis Landa Spanyol, Yunani, Portugal dan Italia
Violent Protests Across Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy
Editor : Mohamad Aslan
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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SEKITAR 800 penerbangan menuju dan dari Portugal dan Spanyol dibatalkan. Aksi turun ke jalan tindak anarkis melanda Spanyol, Yunani, Portugal dan Italia. Polisi di Madrid dan Milan terpaksa menembakkan peluru karet untuk mengatasi tindak anarkis. Penumpang pesawat di Inggris terlantar setelah puluhan jadwal penerbangan dibatalkan.
Ribuan penumpang pesawat di Inggris terlantar di bandara akibat gelombang penghematan melanda daratan Eropa, mengakibatkan banyak kota lumpuh dan memicu tindak anarkis.
British Airways di Heathrow membatalkan 39 penerbangan ke Madrid dan Barcelona serta penerbangan ke Lisabon di Portugal. EasyJet telah membatalkan layanan penerbangan Inggris-Spanyol serta lebih dari 20 penerbangan lintas Eropa.
Seluruh kawasan benua diwarnai tindak anarkis sehingga harus diatasi dengan peluru karet di jalanan Madrid. Bentrokan dengan aparat keamanan terjadi di Milan dan Roma serta Paris dan Lille.
Sampai sejauh ini, penerbangan ke dan dari Portugal dan Spanyol mengalami 800 pembatalan atau sekitar 40% dari rata-rata penerbangan per hari.
Lebih dari 600 penerbangan dibatalkan di Spanyol, terutama oleh Iberia dan Vueling. Maskapai Portugal, TAP juga membatalkan sekitar 45% jadwal penerbangannya.
British Airways menyatakan: "Kami berusaha semampu kami untuk meminimalkan gangguan pada pelanggan kami. Kami meminta maaf kepada pelanggan atas ketidaknyamanan yang disebabkan oleh aksi industri yang berada di luar kendala kami.
Sekretaris jenderal Perdagangan Uni Eropa, Bernadette Segol mengatakan kepada Today Programme di Radio 4's: "Serikat buruh di Eropa ingin menunjukkan bahwa kebijakan ini akan berubah. Hasilnya tidak sesuai yang mereka inginkan. Kita mengalami resesi dan pengangguran yang terus meningkat dan kami ingin mengubah kebijakan ini."
Daily Mail melansir, mengapa mereka melawan? Pemerintah di seluruh Eropa dipaksa untuk memberlakukan pemotongan pengeluaran agar dapat menerima bailout dari IMF dan Uni Eropa.
Penyebab krisis? Resesi global 2008 memicu kenaikan utang dan banyak negara Uni Eropa yang dibiayai utang tapi mereka tidak mampu membayar utang.
Dampak terburuk terjadi di Yunani, dimana upah sektor publik naik 50% pada 1999 hingga 2007 dan menjadi negara pertama yang terkena dampak krisis pada 2009. Spanyol dan Portugal, penganggurannya meningkat dan menghadapi pemotongan anggaran yang besar.
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AROUND 800 flights to and from Portugal and Spain cancelled. Walkouts and violent protests across Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy. Police in Madrid fire rubber bullets and Milan descends into violence. British air passengers grounded with dozens of flights cancelled.
Thousands of British air passengers have been left stranded today as a wave of anti-austerity strikes hit mainland Europe leaving many cities paralysed and bringing violence to the streets.
Heathrow has seen 39 cancellations with British Airways axing flights to Madrid and Barcelona as well as return services to Lisbon in Portugal. EasyJet have cancelled some UK-Spanish services as well as more than 20 flights within mainland Europe.
Across the continent there were scenes of violent protest with rubber bullets fired on the streets of Madrid, running battles with police in Milan and Rome, and clashes in Paris and Lille.
So far only flights to and from Portugal and Spain have been affected by with an estimated 800 cancellations - roughly 40 per cent of the daily average.
More than 600 flights were cancelled in Spain, mainly by Iberia and budget carrier Vueling. Portugal's flag carrier TAP cancelled roughly 45 percent of flights.
British Airways said: 'We are doing all we can to minimise the disruption to our customers. We apologise to our customers for any inconvenience caused by industrial action which is beyond our control."
Bernadette Segol, general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation told Radio 4's Today Programme: ‘The trade unions in Europe want to show that these policies will change. That the result is not what they want to be. That we have more recession and unemployment and we want to change these policies."
Why are they striking? Governments across Europe are being forced to impose harsh spending cuts in order to receive bailout payments from the IMF and EU. These cuts are having dramatic effects on jobs, pensions and public sector wages.
What caused the crisis? The global recession of 2008 triggered a rise cost of borrowing and it soon became clear many EU countries were living well beyond their means, spending far more than they could afford.
Who have been the worst hit? Greece, where public sector wages rose by 50 per cent between 1999 and 2007, was the first country to be exposed in 2009 and faces some of the toughest measures. Spain and Portugal, where unemployment has spiraled, are also facing harsh spending cuts.
