May Day protesters in Athens have been joined by the Greek Finance Minister in a show of defiance against international creditors as negotiations continued to end the stalemate over the bailout.
The Prime Minister was confident a deal would be reached over the weekend to unlock funding from a 7.2bn euros bailout package.
May Day rallies in Athens (http://t.co/x5kkgLYqwC) and in İstanbul (http://t.co/q2sbFeARcU) pic.twitter.com/Izvmo65FIj http://t.co/xevpBVhMg8— Dimo Yagcioglu (@DimoYagcioglu) May 1, 2015
Spain
While in Madrid, around 10,000 people turned out for the annual May Day march holding banners with the message ‘this is not the way to exit the crisis’.
The Spanish economy is slowly recovering from a double-dip recession which struck in 2013 and is still struggling with an unemployment rate of 24%.
May day in Madrid pic.twitter.com/51fW5i6JQq— kwangsik Lee (@kwangsikee) May 1, 2015
Russia
The biggest gathering was reserved for Moscow where tens of thousands are
