New association seeks justice for former Alisuper workers “forced to take out loans”
The former employees of the Alicoop group who have been hounded for years due to debts that they say are no longer their responsibility have formed an association to “defend
Salesman’s motorway tolls ‘bill’ leaps from €400 to €31,000
Insurance salesman Herculano Soldador is living a motorway tolls nightmare. Somehow, he overlooked 64 occasions where he passed through a toll without paying for it. The €400 cost has since
Cruise-ships put Lisbon in 6th place on pollution ranking
Lisbon’s zeal to attract cruise ships has paid off in economic spades, but there is a major flip side: pollution. According to a study, the capital is now the 6th
130,000 foreigners ‘are waiting for Portuguese nationality’
With the number of foreigners applying for Portuguese nationality – among them Brexit-fleeing Brits – increasing all the time, the government has decided to simplify the process by opening it
Trouble for TAP: arbitrary selective bonuses of €1.7 million raise storm
The decision by the CEO of national airline TAP to award selective bonuses to his ‘top brass’ of €1.7 million in a year when the company made losses of a
MP who negotiated massive pay increases for judiciary “is married to a judge”
With a new ‘controversy’ surrounding the vote in parliament last week to massively increase judges’ salaries, two newspapers have revealed that the MP coordinating the commission that proposed the change
21,000 Sephardic Jews claim Portuguese nationality in just over a year
In a week when the German government’s anti-Semitism commissioner urged Jews to avoid wearing skullcaps in public, Portugal has delivered an uplifting antidote. In the last year and a half,
One dead after car careers off EN125
A 70-year-old man was killed outright when a car careered off the EN125 in Patacão near Faro yesterday afternoon. An 83-year-old sitting on a bench with the victim was seriously
Daughter of Portuguese who died in Dubai denied inheritance under Sharia Law
The daughter of a Portuguese banker who died in Dubai has heard that she cannot inherit his €560,000 estate because she is not a Muslim. This is just the latest
Prestigious aircraft maintenance centre “to blame” for terror-flight over Lisbon
Months after an Embraer jet went haywire over Lisbon – leaving its pilots and crew physically and emotionally shattered – aviation experts have confirmed what the jet company’s president suggested