Cost of living protests spread across Belgium, Italy, Portugal and France
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Belgium, Italy, Portugal and France to protest over the cost of living. The demonstrations were separate, but together they increase pressure on governments across the EU.
Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in Belgium, Italy, Portugal and France, four member states of the European Union, to protest over the cost of living. The news was reported by Al Jazeera, a Qatar-based news outlet.
The demonstrations were held separately in each country and were not a single, jointly organised action. Even so, taken together they add pressure on governments across the EU, which face public dissatisfaction over high costs.
The source gives no details on who organised each protest, the specific demands, turnout figures for individual countries or any government response. All that is known at this stage is that the combined turnout ran into the hundreds of thousands and that four countries were affected at the same time.
