Members of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) affiliated trade union faction PAME staged a ‘symbolic takeover’ of the Finance Ministry in Athens’ central Syntagma Square on Friday morning against heavy austerity measures.
About 200 protesters blockaded the entrance to the ministry from dawn, preventing employees from entering. They hung a banner over five stories of the front of the building and took down the European flag from the top of the ministry, replacing it with their own union flag.
They said they would continue the blockade for the entire day.
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