数以千计的希腊工人在雅典抗议政府的经济紧缩措施。与此同时，有关稳定欧元的辩论在欧洲仍在继续。
星期四，工人们游行到首都希腊的议会大楼。全国各地交通和其它公共部门的雇员举行罢工。但是许多空中管制人员仍留守岗位。他们说，他们不想损害艰难经济中的旅游业。
在欧盟其它地方，德国总理默克尔呼吁在全世界范围对金融市场征税。
她星期四在柏林的一次会议上说，她将在六月20国集团峰会上敦促其它国家实施新税。
目前还不清楚默克尔计划的细节。她还呼吁创建欧洲信用评级机构，和那些为投资者评定公司和国家信用等级的大型私人评级机构竞争。
Thousands of Greek workers are protesting in Athens against their government’s economic austerity measures, while debate about stabilizing the euro continues in Europe.
Workers marched to the parliament in the Greek capital Thursday, and transportation and other public sector employees went on strike throughout the country. But many air traffic controllers stayed on the job, saying they did not want to hurt tourism in the struggling economy.
Elsewhere in the EU, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a worldwide tax on financial markets.
She told a conference in Berlin Thursday she will urge other countries at the June summit of the Group of 20 nations to implement a new tax.
Details of Ms. Merkel’s proposal were not immediately clear. She also called for the creation of a European credit rating agency to rival large, private companies that rate the credit of companies and countries for investors.