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A protestor holds a carnation flower while demonstrating during a general strike against a labour code reform project, called by the country's two main unions in front of the Portuguese Parliament in Lisbon on December 11, 2025. Widespread disruption hit Portuguese air travel and trains, hospitals and schools as the unions called the biggest nationwide strike action for more than a decade, protesting against a draft law aiming to simplify firing procedures, extend the length of fixed-term contracts and expand the minimum services required during a strike. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP via Getty Images)