Months of political limbo ahead “just when government poised to fire up economy”
Rejection of the State Budget in parliament yesterday consigns Portugal “to months of political limbo just when the government was poised to fire up the economy after the Covid-19 pandemic
STATE BUDGET REJECTED: New year elections on horizon
After days of political back-biting, manoeuvring and tension, the government’s State Budget for 2022 failed in its first reading in Parliament. What it means in the short-term is that President
Partners to be allowed to accompany pregnant mothers in hospital under change in Covid rules
Notwithstanding the pandemic, partners of women in labour are to start being allowed to accompany pregnant mothers in hospital, from routine appointments and ultrasound exams to the birth itself. A
Covid-19: incidence and transmission steadily increasing
Wednesday’s DGS Covid bulletin shows that incidence and transmission in Portugal is steadily increasing, in spite of the fact that over 86% of the population is fully-vaccinated. With third booster
Attorney General calls for “new specialised approaches” to combat fraud and tax evasion
Attorney General Lucília Gago has spoken out against the scourge of fraud and tax evasion that damages the Portuguese State to the tune of over 25% of GDP every year.
14 districts on yellow alert as rain ‘on the way’…
14 districts have been put on yellow alert as IPMA forecasts ‘rain, sometimes heavy’ will be arriving in continental Portugal from tomorrow. The understanding is that the districts of Viana
HIV/ Aids champion target of PJ swoop
Margarida Martins – the social activist turned politician – is suddenly back in the news today, under alleged suspicion of economic crimes and the ‘personal use of public property’ during
Cliffhanger vote today at Cruz Vermelha (Red Cross)
Today isn’t just the day the country hears whether or not it will be plunged into an early election campaign, it is the date the Cruz Vermelha (Red Cross) is
New Year elections: only President Marcelo appears not to want them
With today being ‘decision day’ for the survival of the 2022 State Budget, the truth is that ‘everyone in parliament’ seems to want early elections. Political commentators are agreed: the
CGTP calls “national demo” in Lisbon for November 20
Portugal’s largest trade union, CGTP has called a national demo for November 20 in Lisbon to push for “a general increase in salaries, the eradication of precarity, reduction of working