Europe's austerity protests: mad as hell | Editorial

This is a pan-southern-European pushback against austerity happening while the package is still being negotiatedIn all the dozens of summits and meetings held over the past couple of years about how to keep the euro show on the road, one subject has been notably absent. Amid all their talk of haircuts (on debt values) and tranches (of loans), European leaders have barely talked about the people who are bearing the brunt, first of the crisis and then of the throat-clearing that passes for firefig...