New body-blow to government plans to change law to start building airport at Montijo
The government has suffered a new body blow in its determination to press ahead – against the advice and opinions of engineers, scientists, conservationists and civic groups – for a
Covid-19 puts Portugal on red-alert
With a global pandemic at the door – and the list of countries affected in Europe increasing by the day – Portugal has wasted no time in preparing for Covid-19,
Wife of former prime minister Passos Coelho loses heroic cancer battle
Laura Ferreira, the wife of former PSD prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho has lost her heroic battle for life. Diagnosed with cancer five years ago, the physiotherapist by profession died
Lawyers acting for “very important European whistleblower” go after Portugal
Lawyers acting for 31-year-old whistleblower Rui Pinto – the young man who exposed the rot in the world of football (Football Leaks) and leaked hundreds of thousands of incriminating documents
Boris tells battling expat: “Brits abroad will recover voting rights”
British prime minister Boris Johnson has pledged that expats living abroad for over 15 years will at last recover their voting rights. Mr Johnson put his promise in writing to
Algarve students ‘being pulled out of Italy’ due to Covid-19
Three students in their 20s studying at ETIC Algarve are being pulled out of the Erasmus+ exchange that they’re on in Turin, Italy, due to concerns over the spread in
Starving greyhounds: animal associations warn ‘there are many, many others’
With outrage over the state of greyhounds rescued from the Setúbal property of a renowned bullfighter far from abating, new force has been given to a petition calling for the
Judicial uproar as investigation suggests system of allocating cases is rigged, and open to corruption
Judges at Lisbon’s Court of Appeal are in an embarrassing spotlight this week as a journalistic investigation suggests the way cases are allocated has been manipulated, so that specific judges
All change at TAP: 45% share of airline to be sold – possibly to German Lufthansa
Talks preparing the sale of 45% of Portuguese airline TAP are “going well but a deal, with German carrier Lufthansa, is not yet closed, revealed television commentator Marques Mendes on
Mystery as first Portuguese showing symptoms of coronavirus ‘disappears’
Stories are emerging of a Portuguese national, employed on the coronavirus-blighted Diamond Princess cruise-ship, who was removed by authorities over 10 days ago after developing a high fever which developed