Description
Added on the 19/03/2015 10:57:39 - Copyright : France 24 EN
European Central Bank President, Christine Lagarde, announces the ECB is lifting its key rates of interest by 75 basis points, leaving them sitting in a range of between 0.75 and 1.5 percent. It came after the bank hiked rates by 50 basis points in July, its first increase in more than a decade, in order to tame record eurozone inflation. These levels "will ensure the timely return of inflation to our 2% medium term target" she says, during a press conference in Frankfurt. SOUNDBITE
Beirut, Feb 20 (EFE / EPA) .- Hundreds of people protested Thursday against the central bank in Beirut.Protesters are demanding to return stolen money that was transferred into accounts in Swiss banks.Moreover, there was a clash between the supporters of the Progressive Socialist Party 'Of Walid Jumblatt', after they blocked the road and prevented the supporters of President Michel Aoun from the Free Patriotic Movement from reaching the central bank, and the Lebanese army and riot police intervened to separate the supporters of the two parties. (Camera: NABIL MOUNZER) FOOTAGE SHOWS B-ROLL OF THE PROTESTS IN BEIRUT, LEBANON.
Saturday the occupy movement protests against the ECB which handed out money to southern European countries, only if they reduced their social spending and therefore are causing impoverishment.
Trial resumes for Benoit Feuillu and four other alleged organisers of two banned demonstrations in western rural France. The activists argue they fight to preserve water and are opposing large artificials reservoirs or "bassines" which they see as a way to monopolise water resources for the farming industry. in October 2022 and specially, in March 2023, the protests turned into violent clashes with police with many protesters injured. SOUNDBITE
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde says Eurozone inflation is slowing but is still expected to be "too high for too long", as the ECB raises interest rates for the ninth consecutive time. SOUNDBITE
French anti-riot police deploy in northern France as tension mount over the fatal shooting of a teen in a Paris suburb. France on Thursday charged a policeman with homicide over the fatal shooting of a teen that has left authorities scrambling to contain an escalating crisis and prevent new protest violence. IMAGES
|
Support : Technical 
- Content 
- Editors 
