ACTIVISTS OCCUPY DG ECFIN.

Around 100 activists occupied the European Commission's Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), on 14 March, to protest against Commissioner Olli Rehn's key role in imposing austerity policies. "From buildings such as the one we occupy today, the troika is imposing austerity policies that leave millions of people without proper health care, deprive millions more citizens of their livelihoods and destroy hard-won historical social rights," explained Michel Vanderopoulos, a member of the action group For a European Spring (a coalition of movements from 13 countries). The action, OccupyTheTroika, was organised...