Portugal’s president vetoes Socialist ‘law’ condemned for opening doors on collusion, cartelisation and corruption
Very quietly on Saturday while focus was on the government’s measures for Christmas and New Year, Portugal’s president Marcelo vetoed the parliamentary diploma that caused a political storm back in
Portugal back in ‘cross hairs’ of economic battle between China and U.S.
Portugal is back in the cross hairs of an economic battle that has been simmering for the best part of two years between China and the United States. With the
Portuguese restaurant association describes ‘total despair’ as Christmas concessions “don’t help”
PRO.VAR, the national association of restaurants, has described the sector’s “total despair” over Christmas and New Year ‘concessions’ presented by the prime minister yesterday, saying not only don’t they help
Christmas concessions: PM lays out Portugal’s festive season, with major proviso
Prime minister António Costa addressed the nation at 3pm today, outlining all the measures that should be in force over Christmas and the New Year – with one major proviso.
Vaccine ‘shortage’ means Portugal’s most vulnerable “could be left waiting”
Portugal’s general medical council has reacted to news that there is already a vaccine ‘shortage’ (click here) – warning the country’s most vulnerable will be left waiting, and unprotected. There
Portugal’s demographic drama: ‘average number of children per couple down to 0.86′
Portugal’s falling birthrates have been an issue for years, but new statistics show that the average number of children per couple now is only 0.86. This means that more than
Marcelo expected to extend Portugal’s State of Emergency to January 7
President Marcelo will be addressing the nation this evening at 8pm to extend the State of Emergency. Everything points to an extension to January 7. This is legally ‘unusual’, in
Controversial ‘Salazar museum’ project runs into new ‘issues’
The project to create a museum to the Salazarian years – one of the many dark periods in Portugal’s long history – has run into a new issue. PS Socialists
Portugal’s confidence in Covid vaccine? It’s rising…
Confidence in the vaccines on their way is not ‘stellar’, but it is rising. Says Público referring to a recent ‘barometer of social opinion’, at the end of October only
Lisbon mayor brokers end to Portugal’s embarrassingly high-profile hunger strike
Lisbon mayor Fernando Medina managed last night to broker the end of Portugal’s embarrassingly high-profile hunger strike that had been camped outside parliament for almost a week. At a moment