LISBON/ATHENS (Reuters) - After a lull during the summer, street protests and strikes are mounting again in the debt-laden countries of southern Europe as harsh austerity programmes cause ever more pain.
But with the possible exception of Portugal, where months of quiet resignation have changed to anger, the unrest seems unlikely in the short term to topple governments more in thrall to market forces pushing for debt cutting than domestic opposition.
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