Europe, Anti-government Protest | featured news

Solace for world leaders trying to enforce painful austerity measures: At least you're not running Romania.

Workers opposed to a higher retirement age blocked roads to airports around France on Wednesday, leaving passengers in Paris dragging suitcases on foot along an emergency breakdown lane.

Protesters marched through Athens Thursday, the first since three people died when a bank was torched.

Hundreds of thousands of people joined May Day rallies across Europe on Saturday, many protesting against government austerity policies in the wake of the global financial crisis.

May Day protesters clashed with riot police in Germany, Turkey and Greece on Friday while thousands angry at the government's responses to the global financial crisis took to the streets in France.

Thousands of protesters crowded together outside the Bank of England in London today, a day before President Obama and other leaders gathered for the G-20 summit to discuss the world's economic crisis. Some protesters lunged toward the police line.

Thousands of people marched through European cities Saturday to demand jobs, economic justice and environmental accountability, ...

The financial crisis and a series of scandals has Irish workers fuming -- and likely to take it out on the government.