Protestors in Italy and Spain are holding a day of action against their government's latest austerity measures.

"Many Italians know that some cuts are inevitable, hence not hundreds of thousands have turned out," Al Jazeera's Nadim Baba, reporting from Rome, said.

"These austerity measures are also irresponsible, they are measures that dump on the worker, on the public workers, all the costs of this crisis and this difficult financial situation," Susanna Camusso, the secretary-general of CGIL, told Al Jazeera.

"It is an austerity measure that does not take into consideration the future of the country and what should be necessary for growth."