Angry workers plan protests, strikes and work stoppages from Athens to Brussels on Wednesday to denounce a wave of austerity biting Europe, on the eve of an EU summit centred on the bloc's debt crisis. In Greece, the million-strong GSEE union organises the country's seventh general strike of the year to protest drastic budget cuts launched by the government under pressure from the EU and IMF for a massive debt bailout they granted in May. More union action is planned in France, Luxembourg, Denmark and the Czech Republic, one day before European leaders meet in Brussels to discuss the creation of a permanent crisis mechanism to put an end to the debt crisis. Less than three months after tens of thousands of protesters swarmed the streets of Brussels, trade unions will voice their anger again at the European Union one day before EU leaders meet in the bloc's de facto capital. Workers will form a human chain around the European Commission's huge glass headquarters to symbolise the belt-tightening that they fear will destroy wages and cherished welfare systems while bankers pocket big bonuses. The protesters will tell the EU's executive arm: 'No to austerity for everyone and bonuses for a happy few.' 'As the year comes to an end, bonuses are flowing making the contrast between private wealth and public austerity all the more obvious,' said John Monks, general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation. 'European trade unions ask the governments to stop attacking wages and welfare, to act together, to stop racing from one crisis to the next, to stop destroying our social Europe,' Monks said. In the neighbouring Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, unions from Belgium, Germany and France will join a picket in front of the chamber of deputies while a delegation will meet with Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who heads the group of eurozone finance ministers. Czech police officers and firefighters will swarm the streets of Prague and hold a protest in front of the country's legislature to denounce a proposed 2011 austerity budget. Smaller protests are planned in Denmark and France, where unions held massive protests in recent months that failed to stop the government from raising the retirement age as part of major pensions reform. Protests will resume on Saturday in Spain, which has been hit by higher interest rates on the sovereign bond market over fears that it could follow in the shaky footsteps of Greece and Ireland. EU leaders meet on Thursday for a two-day summit to debate a limited treaty change to create a permanent mechanism to tame the debt crisis on money markets that has driven up the borrowing costs of several eurozone countries. The new system would replace a temporary, 440-billion-euro backstop that was created in May following the Greek bailout and expires in 2013. 