Police protests set to continue – could threaten March 10 elections
After a weekend in which professional football games were cancelled (one with dramatic consequences) due to police calling in sick en masse, media reports have stressed “these protests by police
Police’s “football protests set to continue”
Professional and amateur games cancelled over weekend due to police absences After a weekend in which two professional football games were cancelled (one with dramatic consequences) due to police protest
Firefighters protest today in Lisbon
After a brief period of excellent press, minister for interior administration José Luís Carneiro, has had nothing but bad press: frustrated police syndicates have accused him of ‘not speaking the
Teachers promise to be ‘out in force’ during election campaign, to press for long-held demands
FENPROF, the national federation of teachers representing the nine syndicates fighting for better salaries, terms of employment and ‘respect’, has announced its members will be out in force during the
Farmers “at gates of Lisbon” blocking access to Vasco da Gama Bridge
Protests continue into second day, despite government pledges Portuguese farmers have continued their protests today, in spite of verbal pledges of over €500 million in funding by the government. The
Lisbon’s anti-Islamic protest shows “great ignorance of history”, say experts
Capital “filled with signs of Islamic heritage” With far right group 1143 believed to be intent on carrying through a protest to the banning of its Anti-Islamic march in Lisbon
Protesting farmers block several principle roads in Portugal
Police despair government’s ‘preferential handling of agriculture’ Today’s protests by farmers on principle roads leading into and around Portugal have masked for the moment a worrying ‘spin-off’ that promises to
Further police protests in Porto
Following last week’s mass demonstration of PSP and GNR agents, the platform that represents the 11 syndicates fighting for earnings parity with the PJ (judicial police) will be holding a
Trucking companies report ‘heavy losses’ due to French protests
Portuguese trucking companies are reporting heavy losses due to the chaotic situation in France. Road blocks set up by protesting farmers have stranded thousands of Portuguese trucks. ANTRAM’s Matias de
Portuguese farmers prepare to “paralyse country”
Furious farmers decide to copy French farmers’ protests With French farmers more than a week into protests against the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy – which they say is leading them