National strategy to combat corruption and ‘save €18.2 billion a year’ approved ahead of whistleblower trial
Less than a day before the trial of whistleblower Rui Pinto opened in Lisbon, the Council of Ministers finally approved Portugal’s ‘national strategy for the combat of corruption’. Says ECO
Delight as natural gas fields of Batalha and Pombal finally ‘ditched’
Eco-association Zero is calling it “a great environmental victory”. The last remaining contracts in place for the drilling of fossil fuels on Portuguese mainland have purportedly been ‘ditched’. In a
Cocaine worth over €5 million ‘left on airport carousel’
With all the confusion ongoing in air travel today it’s perhaps not that surprising that one traveller appears to have left six suitcases packed with over 208 kilos of cocaine
Holidaymakers “totally confused” as UK ‘divides’ over quarantine rules
UPDATED September 10: Only a week ago Portugal’s battered tourism sector was holding its breath ‘praying for a miracle’. Everyone thought that if the country held onto its airbridge with
Immigrants’ rights to stay in Portugal extended due to pandemic
Immigrants whose legalisation in Portugal has been held up by the pandemic heard today that their rights to remain in this country have been extended to 2021. Back in March
Brussels defends Portugal’s plans for lithium exploration ‘as long as there’s dialogue with communities’
Portugal’s aspirations to create a ‘lithium cluster’ came closer today as Brussels launched its ‘Action Plan on Critical Raw Materials’, defending exploration of lithium in the north of the country
Strange seeds posted from China? Government says ‘don’t plant them, or bin them’
A government alert has gone out following reports throughout Europe of people receiving unsolicited packets of seeds ‘from Asian countries’. Media sources in Portugal have instantly identified China, without specifying
Voices unite against authorities’ blinkered approval of water-guzzling avocado monocultures
After years in which its members appeared to be shouting into a void, the Algarve’s Regenerate environmental association (born out of an earlier group, Terra Saudável) has been ‘joined’ by
Air bridge decision “to be announced only Friday lunchtime”, says minister
A decision on whether to remove the air bridge with UK that has brought a touristic boom to the Algarve in the last couple of weeks will only come tomorrow
ADEUS AIRBRIDGE? Portugal “needs miracle” to hold on to coveted airbridge with UK
As the Resident went to press on Wednesday, it was becoming agonisingly clear that Portugal needs a miracle to retain the coveted ‘airbridge’ with UK that has seen almost 30,000 British