PS query alleged instructions to ‘block national health consultations and surgeries’
PS Socialists are calling for an urgent hearing in parliament of the executive director of Portugal’s SNS health service, Álvaro Almeida, following allegations that ‘instructions have been given not to
Portuguese among six killed in ‘intentional’ Swiss bus fire
A Portuguese man has been identified among one of the numerous victims in an horrific incident on a PostBus in Switzerland on Tuesday. The man, aged 63, was the bus
Over €150 million pledged to make good damage caused by winter weather
Portugal’s government has announced programmes involving over €150 million to make good some of the damage caused by winter weather and storms between October and February. A total of €40
Mayor “profoundly shocked” by declarations of economy minister
With the mayor of Leiria Gonçalo Lopes already showing that he heartily disagrees with statements made earlier today by economy minister Miguel Castro Almeida, the neighbouring mayor of Marinha Grande
Portugal under orders to transpose police information exchange rules
The European Commission has given Portugal two further months to fully transpose a directive on the exchange of information between member states’ law enforcement authorities, which it describes as “essential
Foreign state ‘trying to access WhatsApp/ Signal accounts of MPs, diplomats and military
Portugal’s secret services (SIS) has sounded the alert today over a global campaign underway, sponsored by ‘a foreign state’, to access the WhatsApp/ Signal accounts of MPs, diplomats and the
Energy minister ‘worried about gas prices’ – mainly for industry
Energy (and environment) minister Maria da Graça Carvalho has admitted to being particularly worried about an increase in the price of gas as a result of the ongoing conflict in
Post-calamity home reconstruction “not going well”, admits minister
In spite of all the promises, the process of getting money into the hands of people whose homes were partially destroyed by Storm Kristin (and the other depressions that followed
New president, new approach: “time to end electoral frenzy”
Monday saw a quiet, political earthquake: out went the country’s ‘President of Affections’ of the last 10 years, and in came a man as different from the high-spirited character the
Algarve ‘killer nurse’ may dodge deportation from Indonesia
The extraordinary story of Mariana Fonseca – the baby-faced ‘killer nurse’ on the run from a 23-year jail term for her part in a savage murder – has just taken