ASSESSMENTS
Europe: The Winter of Social Discontent
Jan 29, 2009 | 20:30 GMT

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Summary
People across Europe have launched protests, strikes and riots this winter. In Iceland, the social unrest was constant enough to cause the government to collapse. Europe has a long history of social protests. Such movements tend to spread across the continent due to geography, technology, demographics and economics.
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