Author: Natasha Donn

Environment minister João Pedro Matos Fernandes is described as ‘not wishing to comment’ over the decision by Turismo de Portugal to buy four dozen new diesel cars. Turismo’s reasoning (albeit

All European citizens are to have the same kind of identity card from 2021. According to reports today, the decision to introduce ‘uniform’ identity cards throughout Member States was reached

The motion of no confidence in a ‘wiped out’ government fell last night, with all left-wing minority parties supporting the PS Socialist executive. Instigated by Assunção Cristas – leader of

Just as the government had been affirming, the nurses’ ‘surgical strike’ that has forced the cancellation of over 10,000 scheduled operations in Lisbon and the north of the country has

Dangerous chemicals, including glyphosate – the fertilizer linked to cancer – have been discovered in various brands of disposable nappies in the first study of its kind worldwide. The alert

After all the talk that she’d left the US ‘because of Trump’, the truth is that pop diva Madonna chose Portugal because of ‘soccer’. It has been the best choice

Worrying data published on Valentine’s Day is that more than half the number of university students questioned in a new study have said that at one time or other they

The Supreme Administrative Tribunal has today ‘accepted’ the legal bid lodged by nurses unions to stymy the government’s ‘civil requisition’. What this instantly means is that the ‘surgical strike’ blocking

Still not where they want to be regarding salary increases and career progressions, the nation’s teachers are now threatening to blitz the summer term. The latest tactics involve shirking classes,

With the health sector already creaking visibly, private hospitals are threatening to cause yet more chaos by pulling out of special deals that cover up to 1.2 million public sector