The unhappy campers
Spain’s young want jobs, the markets want reform and voters want a new government
MICHAEL BANKS, a child in the 1964 Disney musical, “Mary Poppins”, is an unlikely hero for today's angry Spanish youth. But his face features on some of the thousands of posters pinned to the walls of Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square, where protesters have been camped out for almost two weeks. The reason? He demanded his tuppence back from the Dawes Tomes Mousley Grubbs Fidelity Fiduciary Bank, and started a run.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “The unhappy campers”
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