Protests in Greece against EU-IMF loan deal
Greek unions were to hold protests in Athens and other cities Thursday against the prospect of new austerity cuts demanded by the country's international creditors, AFP reports.
A small group of activists from the pro-Communist Pame trade union occupied the finance ministry, taking down the EU flag and unfurling a massive banner which said Greeks "had bled enough."
"We have bled enough, we have paid enough," the banner, which portrayed leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras alongside his pro-reform predecessors George Papandreou and Antonis Samaras, read.
Pame and civil servants' union Adedy were to hold protests in Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities in the evening amid reports that the government were nearing a new loan deal entailing fresh cuts.