男女羞羞视频在线观看,国产精品黄色免费,麻豆91在线视频,美女被羞羞免费软件下载,国产的一级片,亚洲熟色妇,天天操夜夜摸,一区二区三区在线电影
您現在的位置: > Language Tips > Audio & Video > Normal Speed News  
 





  May Day rallies attract thousands across Europe
[ 2006-05-03 11:00 ]

More than a million people rallied in traditional May Day rallies across Europe. In Italy, labor unions had a strong message for the mafia, in Germany demonstrators protested against globalization and in Russia communists honored Lenin and Marx.

Hundreds of thousands turned out across Europe to take part in mainly peaceful May Day rallies.

In Italy, the three major trade unions gathered the Calabrian town of Locri, to give a strong message against the Mafia. They underlined the importance of the rule of law in the south of Italy and of economic development.

One union leader said Locri was chosen because it is an area that needs help. Unemployment in the region stands at more than 40 percent.

Union leader Luigi Angeletti said the square from where he addressed the crowd was chosen to thank young people and to tell them that the trade union will not leave them alone.

May Day rallies were held in other Italian cities, the biggest in Milan, where Education Minister Letizia Moratti, who is running for mayor in the city, was forced to leave because of protests against her. Rome celebrated with its annual huge May Day concert.

Labor unions in Germany protested the effect of globalization on Europe's largest economy, accusing firms of sacrificing jobs for quick profit. Years of slow economic growth and massive job cuts by German firms have pushed up unemployment in Germany, now at 11.5 percent.

The extreme right gathered in Paris. About 3,000 people listened to a speech by National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen at Place de l'Opera, after a march that began at a statue of Joan of Arc, whom the party views as its patron saint. Le Pen called for a "patriotic union" of the far right to support him in next year's presidential election.

In the Austrian capital, Vienna, about 120,000 members of the opposition Social Democratic Party participated in a traditional May Day march, a show of party pride ahead of this autumn's parliamentary elections.

Thousands of workers from across the Britain joined a May Day march through the streets of London, held against a backdrop over health cuts, job insecurity, and pensions.

Union chief Tony Woodley called for British Prime Minister Tony Blair to resign.

"The reality of it is Mr. Blair has already decided to stand down himself - it is a question of timing," said Woodley. "The sooner that happens now and we get stability in our party with a new leader who makes their own mark, on what their policies are, what their government is and what the future is, that will be an awful lot better for British work, and men and women, and the British working public."

Some of the biggest May Day gatherings were held in Moscow, where thousands gathered in central Tverskaya Street to hear speeches from trade union leaders and the city mayor.

Meanwhile, communists marched from a square where there is a statue of Lenin to their usual rallying spot by a statue to Karl Marx, opposite the Bolshoi Theater.

In Bosnia, the unemployed marched down Sarajevo's main street, demanding new elections and the resignation of the government, which they claim is not doing enough to lower the 40- percent unemployment rate.

Thousands also marched in central Athens to protest the war in Iraq and the Greek government's economic policies.

Vocabulary:

backdrop: the background (背景)

 

 
 
 




主站蜘蛛池模板: 和政县| 门源| 杭锦旗| 仁布县| 巴青县| 安达市| 乐安县| 徐水县| 吉首市| 徐闻县| 阳泉市| 靖宇县| 威宁| 雅江县| 洪雅县| 台前县| 汉源县| 象山县| 泗水县| 通道| 武城县| 枞阳县| 辽源市| 新建县| 昔阳县| 拜城县| 博乐市| 芜湖县| 萝北县| 育儿| 平阳县| 东兴市| 土默特右旗| 绥芬河市| 中牟县| 昌都县| 宁安市| 蓝田县| 拉孜县| 八宿县| 鄢陵县| 枣阳市| 凉城县| 大埔县| 绩溪县| 贞丰县| 武邑县| 凤阳县| 华亭县| 临桂县| 泸溪县| 巩义市| 泸定县| 济宁市| 宜昌市| 莱芜市| 遂川县| 固安县| 安图县| 鄄城县| 新源县| 沅陵县| 中江县| 云林县| 靖安县| 靖西县| 措美县| 张家川| 德令哈市| 溆浦县| 沅江市| 周口市| 来安县| 乌兰察布市| 枝江市| 旬阳县| 临泉县| 时尚| 清徐县| 高密市| 漳浦县| 普定县|