Tens of thousands of Portuguese have staged anti-austerity demonstrations in the country’s two most populated cities, demanding the resignation of the government. On Saturday, thousands of people took to the streets of the capital Lisbon against new wage and pension cuts planned in the country’s 2014 budget. According to organizers, up to 70,000 people attended the rally. The protesters called... 

Portuguese protesters hold banners with anti-government policy messages during a protest against austerity measures, on the day of the general strike, in Lisbon on November 24, 2011. Portugal’s main trade union, the General Confederation of Portuguese Workers (CGTP), has fiercely condemned as a “declaration of war against workers” a new set of austerity measures introduced by the government...