Italy protests against unemployment

Thousands of students protested against the reduction of the education budget (French)
Thousands of students took to the streets across Italy on Friday to protest against unemployment among young people and reducing education budgets, while the refusal of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi calls to resign, saying he would bear the responsibility for pulling the country out of crisis.
A group of demonstrators protest in Rome was a symbolic gesture to bring hours of an alert to Berlusconi's offices in the capital, said one of the protesters that "the hour has arrived this government, this generation does not want to waste time."
In one secondary school in central Rome, protesters raised a banner reading, "This debt is not so doing and we did not make this crisis," and chanted slogans echoed in recent months by protesters in the United States and other parts of Europe, including Spain.
Demonstrated about three thousand through Turin, according to the police with a large sign reading "Now you must settle accounts with us," in reference to the Italian Prime Minister.
Organisers said that she attended similar protests about a hundred other cities, according to pamphlets distributed in the protests, 47% of young people working in temporary jobs, and 29% of them are unemployed.
Noteworthy that over the past three years has reduced the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to 8 billion euros (10.7 billion dollars) from the education budget, in one of a series of austerity measures in the context of pressures experienced by Italy of the financial markets.
Step up opposition
In the meantime, Berlusconi rejected opposition calls for his resignation because of the policies of his government.

He accused Berlusconi - who is under pressure because of corruption and sex scandalsand criticism over the way the center-right government, headed by - the opposition wasseeking to remove him from office.

Berlusconi said, "It's demand is ridiculous and I consider that it will only destabilize the country."

Quoted by Italian news agency ANSA for Berlusconi as saying: "The verdict is the great personal sacrifice for me, it's the burden I would be happy without him, but the last thingItaly needs now is a government crisis," vowing to complete his term, which expires in 2013.

He added that "early elections are not useful for one and cling to the left to control thepower," adding that the elections will raise the instability and create new opportunities for financial forecast, in reference to the pressure of the market because of Italiansovereign debt crisis.


Source: agencies