Thursday, November 1, 2012

More protests in Portugal as Parliament passes anti-social budget

Thousands protested against before the Portuguese Parliament as it passed a new anti-social budget that keeps the wasteful military expenditure under NATO, cuts pensions and raises direct taxes a lot.

In Portugal as in Spain there will be another journey of general strike on November 14th. 

The budget has been challenged before the Supreme Court. 

Source: Euronews (video).

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