. Austerity or not?
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Pascale Harter's testing the mood in Spain in the week hundreds of thousands made clear their disapproval of the Madrid government's austerity measures. In France the new administration of President Francois Hollande wants to restore prosperity without applying too much austerity. But David Chazan says the difficulties are piling up for the new man in the Elysee Palace. The Nigerian economy is leaking millions. Will Ross has been to the Niger Delta to find out how people are helping themselves to the country's most valuable resource, oil. Linda Pressley tells the extraordinary tale of the travels of the corpse of Argentina's most famous First Lady, Eva Peron. While eight thousand miles from Buenos Aires, Mark Bosworth finds a hundred thousand Finns dancing the tango under the midnight sun.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC, this is from our own correspondent. |
| 0:04.6 | You can hear the version of the program we make for the BBC World Service by visiting our site |
| 0:08.9 | at BBC online. |
| 0:10.8 | But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:16.0 | Today hundreds of thousands of Spaniards tell their government austerity's not the way forward. |
| 0:22.0 | While in France the difficulties pile up for a new... Austerities not the way forward. |
| 0:22.6 | While in France, the difficulties pile up for a new president who believes there are other ways |
| 0:27.2 | to bring back the good times. |
| 0:29.5 | The Nigerian authorities admit they're losing millions as people help themselves to the |
| 0:34.3 | country's most precious resource, oil, and we're finding out how a hundred thousand |
| 0:39.5 | fins came to be dancing the tango under the midnight sun. |
| 0:45.0 | There have been huge protests in Spain against the government's latest austerity measures. |
| 0:49.7 | They took place as formal approval was given for a bailout of the country's banks. |
| 0:54.7 | Eurozone finance ministers endorsed a loan of billions of euros, but the move failed to rally |
| 0:59.8 | the Spanish stock market, which yesterday plunged some 6%. The demonstrations |
| 1:05.3 | against the government's economic policies took place in more than 80 |
| 1:08.8 | cities and towns across Spain. So why then in Castilla La Mancha did Pascal Carter find herself asking |
| 1:16.6 | crisis what crisis? Here in Thudad Riale the children are chasing the starlings, dipping and diving in the town square. |
| 1:26.0 | Young parents scoop up toddlers in football shirts and set them back on their feet. |
| 1:31.0 | The little girls have ribbons in their hair. Lipsicked women in their their But there are no more tables free outside. It's 8 o'clock and it seems as if the whole |
| 1:46.4 | town is meeting here for beer and tapas. It looks as if nothing has changed in Spain, but 40% of young people are now unemployed here. |
| 1:57.0 | Couples have defaulted on their mortgages and moved the whole family in with Grandma to live off her pension. So how come everyone seems to be out, |
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