As Portugal’s annual internal security report – the Relatório Anual de Segurança Interna, or RASI 2025 – lands on desks in Lisbon, it paints a picture that should make even the most optimistic progressive blush. Hate crimes jumped 6.7% last year to 449 recorded incidents. Online extremism and youth radicalisation are flagged as prime drivers.

Portugal’s domestic intelligence service, the Serviço de Informações de Segurança (SIS) – the country’s main agency for countering internal threats such as terrorism and radicalisation – has........

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