Porto council security guards protest over possible job losses
Security guards working for Porto City Council have been demonstrating today outside City hall due to fears that many of them face the sack. The situation follows the winning of
Portuguese lorries stranded across France due to farmers’ blockades
Blockades “greatly affecting” imports and exports of Portuguese companies An undisclosed number of Portuguese lorries have been stranded across France for a week due to the French farmers’ blockades, the
Hundreds take part in “Right to Housing”demos across country
Plan is for Portugal’s housing crisis to be at centre of election debates Hundreds of people are currently gathered in Lisbon for the protest for ‘the right to housing’ –
Right to housing platform mobilises demonstrations in 19 cities
At least 19 cities are mobilising participants today to defend the right to housing inprotests called by the Casa Para Viver platform. «We are not giving up», writes on social
Around 15,000 police join historic demo outside parliament
“Numbers show degree of dissatisfaction”, say syndicates Around 15,000 police agents from the PSP and GNR forces converged outside parliament in Lisbon yesterday for an ‘historic’ demonstration that went on
Protest trailing larger event on Saturday ‘auctions off Lisbon parishes’
What seems to have been at least the 3rd separate protest going on in Lisbon today saw supporters of the Casa Para Viver platform ‘auction off Lisbon parishes’ at the
EDP workers hold protest in Lisbon
Hundreds of EDP workers have been demonstrating outside their company’s headquarters in Lisbon today, at a point where they are also holding a 24-hour strike. Dressed as if for work,
Thousands of police expected at Wednesday protest outside parliament
Thousands of police from all forces are expected to take part in the protest scheduled to begin in Lisbon, outside the parliamentary building, on Wednesday afternoon. Reports describe “dozens of
Hundreds of police demonstrate outside Lisbon’s presidential palace
“Caretaker government has powers to resolve this. It is all politics…” Hundreds of members of Portugal’s security forces gathered in front of Belém Palace today, in yet another action to
Police protests: GNR central command gets round table with syndicates
Top brass hopes to find solution to wave of protests sweeping country The GNR’s commander general Rui Ribeiro Veloso has called a meeting with the various syndicates representing his police