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New ECB Headquarters Inauguration Plans Unaffected by Blockupy Protests

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At least 10,000 people from all over Germany and abroad came to Frankfurt for the demonstration in order to disrupt the opening of the new ECB headquarters.

FRANKFURT (Sputnik) — The ongoing violent Blockupy protests in Frankfurt will not affect the opening of the new $1-billion European Central Bank (ECB) office headquarters in the city, the Bank’s spokesman told Sputnik on Wednesday.

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“The ECB is fully operational and the inauguration event today is taking place as planned” Ronan Sheridan, Principal Press Officer of the ECB Directorate General Communications & Language Services, said.

Earlier, a Blockupy spokeswoman told RIA Novosti that at least 300 protesters had broken through a police cordon around ECB's new high-rise headquarters in downtown Frankfurt.

Blockupy is a left-wing political group protesting EU austerity policies, particularly those imposed recently on Greece.

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