Students protest a recent lifting of university asylum laws by university authorities, and taxi drivers go on a 48-hour strike, as the social and economic uncertainty in Greece grows. Thessaloniki, Greece. 02/03/2010
Hundreds of students demonstrated today over a recent, one-off, lifting of university asylum law by university authorities, on a day which also taxi drivers staged a 48-hour strike, amid the latest social and economic uncertainty in Greece.
With a banner which read "We decide for the (university) asylum, not the rectors, the police and the prosecutors - (Let's go) Forward with the joint struggle of students and workers to overturn the policies of Pasok and EU." the students marched through the streets of the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, protesting over the recent lifting of university asylum law (which bans police entering university grounds) by university authorities last Saturday in Zografou campus, in Athens.
Although the Greek university asylum is still in place, the law gives the right to university authorities to lift it on a case-by-case basis, when they deem it necessary.
Thessaloniki city centre was also the scene of another demonstration today in front of the former ministry of Macedonia and Thrace. That of taxi drivers, who stage a 48-hour strike.
The taxi drivers oppose government plans to make them install till machines in their taxis and issue receipts, and pay tax according to their income.
