Latest poll puts Socialists in lead; new revelations add to PM’s ‘company woes’
Expresso claims one of PM’s former company’s largest clients is major-league PSD donor As hard as it is to ‘think national’ when the wider world appears to be spinning out
Appeal court judges confirm 10-year jail term for corruption of former minister of economy
Manuel Pinho’s lawyer has written a book focusing on his client’s innocence… Lisbon Appeal Court judges today have confirmed the 10-year prison sentence delivered to former economy minister Manuel Pinho
USA cancels programmes at top Portuguese universities – sending “intolerable” questions probing terrorist links
President Trump’s campaign against diversity continues to encroach into Portuguese life The ‘looming Trump-berg’ that we talked about only a few days ago has now shut down various programmes at
Portugal’s 2% NATO spending ‘brought forward from 2029’ – but no-one’s saying any more
2% target already recognised by NATO secretary general as ‘much too low’ Portugal’s prime minister has at last conceded that Portugal will be bringing forward the target – already universally
Government prepares €10 billion in counter-measures to protect businesses against Trump’s tariffs
“Sometimes, even with great friends, we have differences” – PM Portugal’s prime minister Luís Montenegro has announced a set of measures this afternoon “totalling more than €10 billion” to respond
Creeping ‘age crisis’ within PSP police force
Around a third aged between 50-59, almost half over-40 Age and recruitment appear to be the creeping crises affecting PSP police – the force that works in urban areas. According
PM insists need for housing ‘much too great to depend on banking dividends’
Portugal’s election campaign struggles for attention under tariff spotlight With so much chaos from America flooding the news pages, the fact that Portugal is yet again facing legislative elections is
Government meets to discuss “possible responses to tariffs” as President Trump backpedals
Brussels applauds President Trump’s 90-day reprieve Government ministers are meeting today to discuss the whole issue of tariffs in light of conversations it has had with the business sector. The
Restaurant boss bludgeoned to death after ‘resisting’ robbery in Mortágua
Luís Dâmaso was dead by time authorities reached scene A man in his 50s was bludgeoned to death yesterday afternoon by men who burst in to the Lagoa Azul restaurant
PJ’s prison corruption swoop uncovers “clandestine drug production laboratory”
Flat in Lisbon “functioned exclusively as laboratory” PJ judicial police have dismantled a clandestine drug production laboratory operating out of a flat in Lisbon. The discovery came during the operation