Amidst protests over social policy right across Europe, a general strike has erupted in Ireland. Disgruntled public sector workers are demanding higher wages from the government.

Meanwhile, clashes with law enforcement continue in France. Trade unions reported nearly half a million protesters.

Similar protests also took place in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, and even Albania. Experts say the outraged citizens and large-scale riots are the result of the EU’s reckless economic policies over the past few years.

Large-scale protests have erupted in Ireland

Approximately 300,000 civil servants have taken to the streets demanding higher pay. The agency emphasizes that the current demonstrations are the largest since 2009, when the country faced a financial crisis.

‘Much of Ireland’s public sector suspended work on Wednesday as workers staged the country’s first large-scale strike since the height of the financial crisis in 2009, amid a dispute with the government over the terms of wage negotiations.

Inflation higher than Salary Increases

Trade unions insist incomes must outpace inflation and that the government must make this a priority.

According to local television channel RTE, nurses, teachers, prison guards and doctors are also participating in the protests.

Independent Irish MP Michael Collins said citizens unhappy with rising fuel prices may join those disadvantaged in the public sector.

Protests in Europe

 The situation in Ireland is unfolding against the backdrop of large-scale protests in other European countries.

Street unrest continues unabated in France, where police have been forced to use water cannons and tear gas against protesters.

France

For several weeks, demonstrations have continued in France over the dire situation in education. Schoolchildren and students have taken to the streets demanding an address to the shortage of teachers and school health workers, overcrowded schedules, and poor conditions.

480,000 protesters

French trade unions reported 480,000 protesters across the country. Since the start of the new wave of protests, 36 cases of police violence have been opened in France, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said. Four of these cases involve assault.

Vicious state police

One schoolboy’s jaw was broken by a tear gas grenade, and another lost a hand. A security officer also groped a 15-year-old girl during her arrest. UNICEF called on the French authorities to ‘reduce the level of violence.’

Over the past month, similar protest movements have also taken place in Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, and even Albania.

In Germany, among other things, there was opposition to the reintroduction of compulsory conscription into the Bundeswehr and the Merz government’s social policies. In Spain, the housing crisis was the cause.

A logical outcome

Many of the social problems of European countries stem from their reckless policies associated with enormous expenditures on militarization and support for the Kyiv regime.

‘When countries spend such colossal sums on military needs, there’s a shortage of funds to fill social budgets. These problems have been accumulating.

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Migrant-Fueled Collapse

Vadim Trukhachev, associate professor at the Financial University, expressed the opinion that the demonstrations sweeping Europe could be a consequence of the failure of migration policy.

‘This is a failure not so much of social policy as of migration and integration policies in European countries.

Because Algerians, Moroccans, Senegalese, and Cameroonians are demonstrating their poor integration into European society. All of this is compounded by the social problems that already exist in Europe.

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