“Three weeks to a month” before conditions in country return to normal
Monday is an unusual moment: the country is far from recovered from the last month’s relentless battering by storms, but the government has removed the ‘calamity status’ protection from the
Seguro’s presidency gets welcome boost from ‘straggler votes’
Portugal’s president-elect António José Seguro got a welcome boost yesterday when the ‘final results’ of the second-round of voting came through from the ‘straggler municipalities’ which delayed voting on February
Many railway services still struggling to get fully on track
Traffic on the Northern, Beira Baixa, Beira Alta, Douro, Oeste and Coimbra Urban railway lines continues to be restricted or suspended on some sections today as a result of the
European agriculture commissioner visits storm-battered Leiria as region loses ‘calamity’ status
With 26,000 households nationally still without electricity as a result of the recent battering by storms, Europe’s agriculture commissioner Christophe Hansen is to visit farms in the municipalities of Leiria
Expert blames Mondego flooding on ‘years of bad decision-making’
Geographer and climate expert, António Bento Gonçalves, has been spelling out the task ahead of Portugal’s government to ‘build back better’ from the catastrophic damages of recent weeks. Talking last
Final voting in presidential elections “not plain sailing”
The final voting today in the second-round of presidential elections (for areas too hit by storms last week to take part) is moving forwards in various locations, except for Bidoeira
Marcelo stresses need for national ‘catastrophe fund’
Visiting a slowly mopping-up Alcácer do Sal today, President Marcelo stressed the need for a national catastrophe fund, roughly 10 days since finance minister Joaquim Miranda Sarmento revealed that the
Searches ongoing in flood-hit Montemor-o-Velho for missing couple
Searches are ongoing today for a couple in their late-60s who left home in the flood-hit municipality of Montemor-o-Velho four days ago, and have not been seen or heard of
Coimbra starts to breathe more easily
This evening, the end of a Friday 13th that had threatened so much in the way of further flooding damages, Coimbra started to breathe more easily. Fears that pressure from
“Don’t abandon Almada!”: Socialist leader appeals to government
Socialist leader José Luís Carneiro is appealing to the government ‘not to abandon Almada’, struggling as it is with the consequences of landslides in the residential area of Porto Brandão,