“The 15-M is getting bigger”, leads El Periódico following demonstrations called by the movement in some fifty Spanish cities. In Barcelona, over 100,000 took part in a “peaceful march”, the Catalan newspaper continues, “strengthening and multiplying the mass, pluralist and non-violent character” of the movement. It was a “challenge overcome” in the opinion of the Barcelona daily, which stresses that the “normality” of the events showed that the violent events of June 15 outside the Catalan regional parliament were “an anomaly, alien to the spirit of the movement.” For El Periódico, “it would be unwise to ignore those who are mobilising” in response “to the austerity measures implemented in Spain and throughout Europe.” A Europe where “the seed of the Spanish anger is finding well-watered soil,” the newspaper goes on to note, reporting that “the mobilisation is spreading fastest in societies that are going through the greatest difficulties”: United Kingdom, Portugal, Greece and Italy.
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