LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s Parliament on Tuesday began debating the center-right government’s spending plans for next year, ahead of the latest demonstration by protesters demanding more action to address a prolonged and deepening housing crisis.

Protests in recent weeks, some of them staged in Lisbon’s downtown squares and broken up by police with batons and dogs, took their cue from demonstrations that began in neighboring Spain last month over similar complaints about unaffordable housing.

A demonstration was announced for later Tuesday outside the parliament building in central Lisbon.

Wide social unrest in the streets has erupted across Europe this autumn.…