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18 March 2015
Dozens of people have been hurt and some 350 people arrested as anti-austerity demonstrators clashed with police in the German city of Frankfurt.

Police cars were set alight and stones were thrown in a protest against the opening of a new base for the European Central Bank (ECB).

Violence broke out close to the city's Alte Oper concert hall hours before the ECB building's official opening.

"Blockupy" activists are expected to attend a rally later on Wednesday.

Organisers were bringing a left-wing alliance of protesters from across Germany and the rest of Europe to voice their anger at the ECB's role in austerity measures in EU member states, most recently Greece.

The bank, in charge of managing the euro, is also responsible for framing eurozone policy and, along with the IMF and European Commission is part of a troika which has set conditions for 

bailouts in Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Cyprus.

A spokesman for the Blockupy movement said the troika was responsible for austerity measures which have pushed many into poverty.

Police set up a cordon of barbed wire outside the bank's new 185m (600ft) double-tower skyscraper, next to the River Main.

What is Blockupy?

• Europe-wide alliance of left-wing parties, unions and movements

• Vehemently against austerity polices of European Commission, ECB and IMF

• First Frankfurt protest attracted thousands in 2012

• Activists from Greece's radical left governing party Syriza and Spain's anti-corruption Podemos are joining the rally

• Also includes Germany's Die Linke and Occupy Frankfurt

• Rallying call: "They want capitalism without democracy, we want democracy without capitalism"

Inside the building, 

ECB President Mario Draghi gave a speech marking its inauguration.

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ECB trečiadienį oficialiai pravers savo būstinės duris, dalyvaujant Centrinio banko vadovui Mario Draghi ir 100 kviestinių svečių. Tačiau itin susirūpinta dėl saugumo šalia būstinės, nes daugiau nei 10 tūkst. aktyvistų žada surengti mitingą prieš taupymo programą (:))).

 

Atsižvelgdamas (neatspėsit, į ką:)) į  šiuo metu siaučiančią Graikijos krizę, ECB nusprendė paminėti pastato atidarymą gana kukliai – be institucijos pareigūnų, papildomai pakviesta tik kiek daugiau nei 20 svečių.

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