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The front page of Público features several domestic stories. Top news includes a large backlog of nationality requests, ongoing housing protests in Lisbon and Porto, and questions about who profits from the housing crisis. Other stories cover unused EU funds for recovery and the inability of…
The IRN has over 690,000 pending nationality requests, with only a quarter related to residents and 23% to descendants of Sephardic Jews. The IRN prioritizes requests from descendants of Portuguese citizens and minors.
Despite police intervention to disband protests in Lisbon and Porto, demonstrators have returned to the squares, vowing to continue their actions. A decree used by police to justify their intervention is raising legal questions.
This article investigates the financial beneficiaries of the current housing crisis.
The European Union has failed to utilize almost 100 billion euros allocated for the Recovery and Resilience Facility.
The average pension for the elderly in Portugal is insufficient to pay for more than half the cost of a private nursing home room.
Reaching a global warming of 1.7 degrees Celsius is a feasible scenario, provided that fossil fuel consumption is eliminated.
An Australian Member of Parliament sustained severe injuries, losing both her legs, following a deliberate vehicular attack.
