Daughter of Ukrainian “beaten to death” by airport inspectors takes government to court
The disgraceful story of a Ukrainian job-seeker beaten to death by airport inspectors in March 2020 is once again back in the news, because an indemnity promised to his daughter
Lisbon funicular tragedy “will be obligatory topic in upcoming local election debates”
Yesterday it was the possibility that Lisbon’s Glória funicular – which crashed so devastatingly last week, killing 16 people – was open to sabotage; today it is “the choice of
PM in Japan highlights “new phase in bilateral relations”
Prime Minister Luís Montenegro on a four-day official visit taking in China, Macau and Japan has announced that Portugal and Japan are elevating their bilateral relationship to a “strategic partnership”
Marcelo’s trip to Bürgerfest gets hilariously lost in translation
Portuguese politics rarely delivers any kind of laugh. But today, a lot of people are laughing because of some hilariously misguided comments over social media made by CHEGA leader André
“Growth is not what we hoped”, finance minister admits, refusing questions
Making the best of it at the close of a conference dubbed “Portugal’s position in a changing global order”, he said that the economy nonetheless is outperforming the eurozone as
Portuguese agriculture risks losing €510 million due to EU ban on pesticides
Portuguese agriculture could lose up to €510 million annually due to reduced productivity and increased costs following Brussels’ decision to ban the use of certain active substances. The warning comes
Six municipalities hit by major power cut; 21,000 without power for hours
Power cuts of ‘some dimension’ are still frustrating households throughout the country following the ‘mass outage’ of last April. Over the weekend, a large section of Aljezur in the Algarve
Glória funicular mechanism “open to vandalism” for as long as anyone can remember
Correio da Manhã tabloid has quite literally lifted the lid on a hugely inconvenient truth pertaining to the Glória funicular that crashed last week, killing 16 – the majority of
Former PM António Costa’s ex-chief of staff clinches plum job at Superior Institute of Management
Vítor Escária, the former chief of staff of António Costa – and still an arguido in a case investigating suspicions of corruption that led to the fall of the last
Meeting points to make for in event of ‘serious accident or disaster’ start being signposted in Lisbon
Lisbon’s Municipal Civil Protection Service has begun installing signs for Emergency Meeting Points – safe places where people should go in the event of a serious accident or disaster. The