ATHENS, Greece An anti-austerity demonstration by more than 80,000 people in Athens degenerated into violence Wednesday as hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police before a crucial parliamentary vote on new spending cuts.
emergency staff and closed schools and tax offices. All ferry and train schedules have been canceled until Thursday, flights were disrupted by a four-hour air traffic controllers’ strike and Athens was without public transport for most of the day.
The country’s biggest union has also called for a demonstration on Sunday evening, when the 2013 state budget is due to be voted on.
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