Portugal’s €250 million reforestation package gets Brussels’ green light
The European Commission has today approved a €250 million package of state aid for the Portuguese forestry sector. The aim is reforestation and compensation for landowners. The scheme will support
Gas bottle prices suffer “large increase” from Wednesday
April will see the prices we all pay for bottled gas increasing ‘dramatically’. Mafalda Trigo, vice-president of ANAREC – the national association of fuel salespeople – has told CNN Portugal
Housing crisis: state-owned property valued at €17.6 million goes under hammer
Four state-owned properties, valued at around €17.6 million, will be going under the hammer tomorrow at auction – the idea being that proceeds will be ploughed into ‘public housing policies’.
Pest control called in for PM’s official residence
It isn’t just the nation’s court buildings (and schools) that are plagued by ‘pest infestations’: the higher echelons of government also have to deal with them, and in a sense,
All set for sizzling start to Easter week
Easter week starts with clear skies and rising temperatures. Maximums could reach 26º Celsius on Tuesday and Wednesday, although nights will remain cold, meteorologist Angela Lourenço has told Lusa. The
Ryanair pulls out of Azores
Ryanair has flown its last flight to the Azores – meaning the roughly 100,000 visitors per year who used the airline to travel to the archipelago will now have to
Lisbon airport queue misery returns
Passengers flying into Lisbon this morning discovered a backlog at passport/ border control, in spite of the fact that every available booth was ‘manned’ by PSP agents. According to anecdotal
Americans in Portugal join anti-Trump protests worldwide
Hundreds of north-Americans living in Portugal have joined the International “No Kings!” movement today, to demonstrate against the policies of Donald Trump. While millions are taking part in protests across
Portugal’s first Nepalese ‘bombeiro’ is welcomed in Moita
In a week where the country’s central bank made a point of stressing that immigrants who come to Portugal ‘are working, and practically none of them receive social security subsidies’,
GNR flag almost 73,000 cars on Portuguese roads without valid “MOT”
Last year saw Portugal’s GNR police flag around 73,000 cars circulating on national roads without their obligatory vehicle inspection certificate – Inspeção Periódica Obrigatória (IPO) in Portuguese (equivalent to an