In Hungary, people go against a law on the road, in Albania, against high tuition fees in Serbia against state violence. And in Germany, there were first yellow in the West-protests.
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Protest against overtime law in Hungary
If you only see the photos, you could keep the lights of Budapest for a merry advent spectacle. The people who gathered on Sunday evening in the Hungarian capital, but no candles, but Smartphones in the hands – and your message is not religious, but political. They are asking Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a law to take back, according to the employer by its employees up to 400 Overtime hours per year shall require. Since Parliament’s vote last Wednesday, more and more people make against this “slave law” mobile, it came to violent riots. On Sunday, the protests were initially peaceful, later the police used again tear gas. With 10,000, maybe 15,000 participants, it was the preliminary climax of a wave of protest, as it has not given, in Hungary, Orban’s eight years in office. Led a similar assessment of the “yellow West” in France. Takes place on Europe’s roads is just a political climate warming?
Anna Donath, Deputy head of the Hungarian opposition party’s Momentum, took part on Sunday in a Demonstration against the “slave law”
Hungary: “Orban get lost”
Many of the protesters took their Call for the expression that you are more than the overtime law, or the social policy of your Prime Minister. Under Viktor Orban workers lost more and more rights, while the position of corporate management was further strengthened. Resentment it is also because of Orban’s crackdown on the homeless and migrants, and of his rescue of the condemned in his home country, a prison sentence Macedonian Ex-Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski.
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“How long Serbia will accept the Evil?” on the sign in the middle of this Protestzugs in Belgrade
Serbia: state violence
In Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, thousands went again this weekend on the road. Many of them vented their Anger over the government with whistles and hooters air, as is the case with the mass protests against the Milosevic Regime in the 1990s. The trigger for the current protests in a brutal attack on the head of the Serbian Left, Borko Stefanovic. Men in black shirts were beating the politician at the end of November in the südserbischen town of Krusevac with an iron bar and severely injured. President Vucic condemned the attack, the perpetrators were caught. The Opposition but continues to Vucics sharp rhetoric, a climate of violence in the country.
The protests in Albania to take a more
Albania: More than high tuition fees
In Albania, students protest since the beginning of the month, for a reduction of tuition fees. At state universities the fees are between the equivalent of 160 and 2560 euros, the average income in the poor Balkan country is just 350 Euro. The protesters in the capital Tirana and some other cities of the country but increasingly also to more General criticism of the government of Prime Minister Edi Rama. They made, among other things, with the road blocks to the widespread poverty in the country and the high gasoline prices closely.
France: what’s next for the “yellow West”?
Road closures due to high gasoline prices – that had begun in France a few weeks ago, the Protest of the “Gilets Jaunes”, the yellow West. The increasingly massive, country-wide Protest, lost to President Emmanuel Macrons concessions and the stop of Strasbourg some momentum. The scale of the protests in Paris last weekend, remained far behind those of the previous weeks.
Yellow West of the 15. December in Paris
The billion-dollar immediately brings program, which provides for, among other things, a 100 Euro higher minimum wage, France is in budget trouble: 2019 Paris is likely to take on more debt, as the Euro stability Pact. Its original core objective, the waiver of an eco-tax increase on fossil fuels, have reached the “yellow vests”. However, the movement has sparked in the few weeks of their existence, a huge momentum and has grown to a strong impact in different political directions. This rapid growth could be the movement’s undoing, if the objectives of the Parties diverge so far that they can agree on any common Agenda.
Europe in Protest?
“Actually, one might suspect that the symbolism of the yellow West – because everyone has a car very quickly,” said protest researcher Sabrina Zajak in front of one and a half weeks in the DW-Interview. “On top of that, there are also dissatisfaction in many other European countries.” So far she retains, however with your assessment that the protests do not spread in a big way. After a few sightings of “yellow West” in Belgium and the Netherlands tents called Sahra Car Up on Knecht’s collection of motion “” on the weekend to a “yellow West”rally in Munich, Germany. In the third largest German metropolis, only 100 people were involved according to the police, however, “get Up,” the voice of 200 participants. It Zajaks evaluation confirmed so far: “The Protest in France has something to do with the very specific country context.”
In Munich, the “Stand up”rally remained in yellow vests manageable
Also, the protests in Eastern Europe are directed very specifically against the local governments. “A European protest movement is more pronounced in the case of transnational concern, such as when livelihoods are at stake – in the case of fishermen, wine-growers or farmers,” said the sociologist Dieter Rucht the ZDF. “What you observed, but almost everywhere in Europe, is a rising resentment level and anxiety level.”
While Social and labour market policy national issues, with the climate warming, not stop at the border. Accordingly, there is at least a small protest movement that is increasingly active European: The “school strike for the climate” was in the summer of first Solo event of the 15-year-old Swede, Greta Thunberg. At least since her speech at the climate conference in Katowice, a growing number of students takes part in several European countries. Last Friday, hundreds to thousands of pupils and students in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Kiel, Göttingen and other German cities took part.