International

'Fire the Troika, not the workers’ was one of the many slogans which could be heard yesterday on the demonstration against the European Union’s destructive policies. Tens of thousands of people from numerous EU member states joined the action in Brussels on the day that heads of EU governments gathered in Brussels for a meeting of the European Council. The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and a a range of social organisations organised the demo to demand jobs instead of a policy of continual spending cuts. The SP was present to express the party’s solidarity with the activists. ‘The fetish for spending cuts has merely ensured that ever more people are losing their jobs and that because of this the economy just gets even worse,’ says SP Euro-MP Dennis de Jong. ‘It’s high time for a change of policy to one which will help us get out of this eurocrisis.’

Jan Marijnissen