PS Socialists seize on parish councils polemic to say they will “vote president’s veto down”
Parish councils become ‘hot electoral topic’ And here we have another ‘hot electoral topic’, guaranteed to throw parliamentarians at each other’s throats as all parties focus on gaining as much
All eyes on Munich Security Conference as Europe grapples to keep up
Portugal’s foreign minister represents Portugal at meeting where ‘no decisions are made’ but where sentiments towards the US are changing In the “particularly hectic context” of a United States of
Marcelo puts kibosh on hopes of many parish councils
Vetoes parliamentary decree ‘restoring parish councils’ to pre-troika map President Marcelo has put the kibosh on the hopes of dozens of parish councils, absorbed in a ‘cost cutting exercise’ during
Government moves to stem Portugal’s miserable rating on corruption
Justice minister says sweeping changes to be created by Council of Ministers later today Following Portugal’s embarrassment at being ranked in terms of corruption alongside African countries of Botswana and
Mouraria residents say “no” to social hotel
Council wants to construct hotel to take in “people in situations of special vulnerability” Mouraria, a historic Lisbon neighbourhood transformed by immigration, is fighting a council plan to create a
January logs 27 arrests in Lisbon’s Mouraria neighbourhood
Following all the criticisms of the police operation in Rua do Benformoso just before Christmas, it transpires that January alone saw 27 arrests in the Mouraria area that includes Rua
Speaker accused of turning blind eye to Nazi salute
Rui Tavares, spokesman for LIVRE (a party with only one MP, himself) has today accused the speaker of parliament of “pretending that the problems don’t exist” after former CHEGA MP
Police forces to be issued with 1,000 tasers
Portugal’s PSP (public security police) and GNR (national guard) will be supplied with tasers, with each force receiving 500 of these non-lethal pieces of equipment, deputy secretary of state for
Inflation slows to 2.5% in January (official)
INE (Statistics Portugal) has said today that inflation in Portugal slowed to 2.5% in January, 0.5 percentage points lower than in December. This confirms the flash estimate released at the
New push to ensure VAT on house building/ renovations comes down to 6%
Infrastructure minister Miguel Pinto Luz has said today that the government is going to insist on reducing VAT to the minimum rate of 6% for housing rehabilitation and construction works.