The EU’s “austerity measures” involve raising taxes and creating new taxes, as well as increasing government spending for the central government in Brussels. When unemployment goes up as a result, of course the cops have to beat back people who used to have jobs . . . right?
PS. The EU was not necessary for anything whatsoever. Unless your goal is the destruction of the USA as a world power, as the EU’s founders was and is.
The austerity measures are eroding their massive welfare state; that is why there is resistance.