21,000 Sephardic Jews claim Portuguese nationality in just over a year
In a week when the German government’s anti-Semitism commissioner urged Jews to avoid wearing skullcaps in public, Portugal has delivered an uplifting antidote. In the last year and a half,
One dead after car careers off EN125
A 70-year-old man was killed outright when a car careered off the EN125 in Patacão near Faro yesterday afternoon. An 83-year-old sitting on a bench with the victim was seriously
Daughter of Portuguese who died in Dubai denied inheritance under Sharia Law
The daughter of a Portuguese banker who died in Dubai has heard that she cannot inherit his €560,000 estate because she is not a Muslim. This is just the latest
Prestigious aircraft maintenance centre “to blame” for terror-flight over Lisbon
Months after an Embraer jet went haywire over Lisbon – leaving its pilots and crew physically and emotionally shattered – aviation experts have confirmed what the jet company’s president suggested
State loses track of 170 works of art “of great historical importance”
“Location unknown”. These are the stark words now tagged alongside 170 ‘public’ works of art of ‘great historical importance’. Expresso broke this story late on Friday but to be fair
Parliament accuses Bank of Portugal of “violating the law”
MPs across the board are accusing the Bank of Portugal of violating the law. This is the latest chapter in the Herculean struggle to get information on which national banks
Taxi app businesses in corruption crackdown: hundreds of ‘dodgy licences’ issued
Hundreds of dodgy licences have been issued to drivers working for ‘taxi app’ businesses in Portugal. This is the claim today after yet another judicial police investigation started rounding-up ‘official
PM Costa fires broadside at ‘parliamentary man’ gunning to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels
Portugal’s prime minister António Costa has delivered a broadside to the man Angela Merkel is said to be supporting to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission. Almost
Disinterest and distrust: European elections get record levels of abstention
Portuguese voters showed a combination of disinterest and distrust in last Sunday’s European elections. Abstention-levels nudged 70% as many preferred the lure of the beach, while a ‘surprising’ number of
Miss Hitler 2019 contest – organised by Portuguese
Portuguese ‘revisionist’ João Branco is the organiser – or certainly one of the organisers – of this year’s Miss Hitler 2019 contest. Dubbed by Expresso as a ‘beauty contest’, it