Former BES boss told he really must pay €3.7 million fine
Months away now from being formally charged over the catastrophic collapse of BES bank, former banking ‘boss-of-all-this’ Ricardo Salgado has learnt that he must indeed pay the €3.7 million fine
Virus: situation around Lisbon “very complex”
With the country basking in high temperatures, and the south pretty static with regards to new cases of Covid-19, the same cannot be said for Lisbon, where 209 new cases
“Crisis in the EU”: Eurogroup boss “believes in relatively rapid recovery”
President of the Eurogroup Mário Centeno – still Portugal’s finance minister, though apparently destined to take over at the Bank of Portugal very soon – is confident that the economic
“Perfect harmony”: Portugal shows how politicians CAN work together and avoid making a drama out of a crisis
With political divisions in Portugal’s oldest ally as rabid as they were during the height of the Brexit debate, Portuguese politicians have shown how it is possible for political opponents
Stop Europe’s largest avocado monoculture “before it sucks us dry”
Battling residents surrounded by hundreds of hectares of water-guzzling avocado monocultures have started a new campaign aimed at prosecuting the companies sucking underground aquifers dry. The GoFundMe campaign seeks to
Hydrogen strategy rolled out to “introduce element of incentive” to energy sector
The government is rolling out its ‘hydrogen strategy’ as a way of introducing an element of ‘incentive and stability to the energy sector’. Say reports, the plan will require up
Babies “struggling for life in ICU”: hospitals see sudden spike in children affected by virus
Two babies are described as struggling for life on ventilators after contracting Covid-19 from their parents. The condition of the infants, both under a year old and with underlying health
New signs that Brits will be getting their summer holidays in the Algarve after all
Every day new signs pop up to show Brits will almost certainly get the chance of summer holidays in the Algarve this year, without all the rigmarole of returning home
Delayed surgeries: “no return to normality in sight”
The government “doesn’t know how many months it will take for SNS waiting lists for surgeries and consultations to return to normal”. This is the opening paragraph of a story
Life guards “cannot perform mouth-to-mouth this summer”
With beaches poised to start functioning ‘officially’ for this strangest of summers, life guards are to be given ‘options’ for mouth-to-mouth which ‘cannot be performed’ in the context of the