Activists build sandbag wall at Frankfurt exchange
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In this picture taken with a fisheye lens, protesters, build a wall around the Frankfurt stock exchange with sandbags to demonstrate against sthe current financial policy in Frankfurt, central Germany, Sunday June 17, 2012. Poster at right reads: Stem Speculations, and others : Transaction Tax Now. Activists calling for a tax on financial transactions have erected a wall of sandbags outside the Frankfurt stock exchange.The anti-globalization group Attac said that about 200 people participated in Sunday’s action. Carrying placards with slogans such as “Stem Speculation” and “Financial transaction tax now,” they built the wall of sandbags around the statues of a bull and a bear symbols of optimistic and pessimistic markets that stand in front of the exchange building. (AP Photo/dapd/mario Vedder)
In this picture taken with a fisheye lens, protesters, build a wall around the Frankfurt stock exchange with sandbags to demonstrate against sthe current financial policy in Frankfurt, central Germany, Sunday June 17, 2012. Poster at right reads: Stem Speculations, and others : Transaction Tax Now. Activists calling for a tax on financial transactions have erected a wall of sandbags outside the Frankfurt stock exchange.The anti-globalization group Attac said that about 200 people participated in Sunday’s action. Carrying placards with slogans such as “Stem Speculation” and “Financial transaction tax now,” they built the wall of sandbags around the statues of a bull and a bear symbols of optimistic and pessimistic markets that stand in front of the exchange building. (AP Photo/dapd/mario Vedder)
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Activists calling for a tax on financial transactions have erected a wall of sandbags outside the Frankfurt stock exchange.
The anti-globalization group Attac said that about 200 people participated in Sunday's action, with the wall meant to symbolize a rampart against financial speculation.
Carrying placards with slogans such as "Stem Speculation" and "Financial transaction tax now," they built the wall of sandbags around the statues of a bull and a bear — symbols of optimistic and pessimistic markets — that stand in front of the exchange building.
Germany's center-left opposition is pressing Chancellor Angela Merkel's government to push for European countries to introduce a tax on financial transactions as Merkel seeks its support to get a European fiscal-discipline pact passed by the country's Parliament.
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