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Apesar de o Bloco de Esquerda ter chumbado o Orçamento para 2021, a relação de forças entre este partido e o PS praticamente não se alterou ao longo do último ano.

A coordenadora do Bloco de Esquerda disse que Matos Fernandes "é mais rápido e defender negócios do que os recursos naturais"

João Pedro Matos Fernandes referiu-se ao pedido de apreciação parlamentar anunciado por Catarina Martins e considerou que ″atrasar a entrada em vigor da lei das minas, como o Bloco de Esquerda pretende, é mesmo proteger os arrivistas e garimpeiros″.

Catarina Martins insurgiu-se contra ″o modelo de negócio dos milhões rápidos para alguns à conta do futuro de todos″, dando como exemplo o decreto que regulamenta a lei das minas e as dragagens do Sado.

O "pai" da Constituição vem reforçar a posição dos inspetores do SEF e da maioria dos partidos da oposição na tese de que a extinção do SEF tem de passar pelo crivo do parlamento.

THE Catalan National Assembly has announced widespread support for the country’s right to choose its own future, as its manifesto was signed by…

Cutting the small print Parliament has approved a law to increase the size of "small print" in contracts, preventing them from being less than 2.5 millimetres or font size 11 The law is the result of the projects of the Ecological Party “Os Verdes” (PEV) and Bloco de Esquerda (BE) and makes an amendment to the so-called Legal Regime of the General Contractual Clauses, which applies to contracts, from insurance to communications, to gas and electricity, and from water to gyms. The PS abstain...

Back in 2017, you spoke to NLR about the confidence and supply agreement between the Bloco de Esquerda and the Socialist Party (PS). This arrangement enabled Portugal to roll back some of the austerity measures introduced after the crash, including pension freezes and cuts to social security. Yet there were disagreements with the PS over public spending, Portugal’s relationship with Europe, and the need for deeper structural reforms. How did these tensions play out over the following years? ...

  The Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed our lives over the last year. The socio-economic challenges are unprecedented: The world faces a historical health crisis, which is followed by a profound social and economic crisis. In addition, climate change keeps posing an existential threat to the planet and to the future of human civilisation itself. The idea that we can just go back to “normal” is a crucial mistake. In order to recover from the crisis, we need radical transformations...

Given the circumstances, the presidential election was a marvel of organization, revealing a civic-mindedness that may have come as a surprise even to the