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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 abstained and the CDS voted against the diploma. The, PSD, BE, PCP, PAN, PEV, Chega, Liberal Initiative and...

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?   After it formed a minority government in 2015, the PS adopted some measures that improved workers...

  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 to develop an economic system based on social justice, social inclusion and climate sustainability....

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