Author: Natasha Donn

PSD leader Rui Rio has embarked on a strategy to try and delay municipal elections by 60 days. The pretext is that it will be nigh impossible to carry out

The rate of virus transmission in Portugal – the so-called Rt number – has reduced to 0.73, and is now the lowest in Europe. But that hasn’t changed the country’s

Contrary to a controversial law passed at the end of last year (click here), restrictions to Portugal’s money-spinning ‘golden visa’ regime will not now come into effect on July 1.

Portugal’s media this afternoon has been reporting on the interview today of foreign minister Augusto Santos Silva with CNN’s “Connect the World” presenter Becky Anderson – stressing that the government

Precisely 46,573 people have recovered since Monday from ‘active Covid-19 infections’.  On a day when the DGS health bulletin delivers the lowest death count for weeks (149 people), as well

In an upbeat section of their latest economic forecasts, the European Commission envisages a “significant recovery” of tourism across the bloc this summer – with rural/ coastal destinations likely to

The long-promised EU funding ‘bazooka’ for post-pandemic recovery has at last been approved.  Says Portugal’s prime minister António Costa, the first tranche of €1.7 billion should be arriving by the

Medical teams of doctors and nurses will be arriving in Portugal over the weekend from Luxembourg and France.  The plan is to give extra support in the hospitals of Espírito

With all thoughts of an early return to the classroom obliterated by last night’s speeches from President Marcelo and prime minister António Costa (click here), schools up and down the