PJ dismantles cocaine trafficking network using Lisbon Airport
PJ judicial police have dismantled a drug trafficking network that operated through Lisbon Airport from an ‘African country’. For the time being, the country is not being specified. The news
Former PM battling for ‘redemption’ loses second lawyer…
Former Socialist prime minister José Sócrates – a man held in jail for months and charged with multiple crimes, involving corruption and malfeasance, that have all started dwindling into the
Immigration: around 900 immigrants registered to 56 ‘illegal residences’ in Porto
As the government opts to pay Brussels handsomely (€8.4 million) in order NOT to receive 420 asylum seekers, PSP police have delivered their 2025 report on efforts to get to
Government pulls out of meeting organised with trades union confederation
In another example of the centre-right government’s ‘re-packaging’ of events and scenarios, the meeting tomorrow with trades union confederation CGTP has been postponed (for a second time). This time the
Presidential election: final campaign days marked by increasingly bizarre behaviour
Never before has Portugal been subjected to candidates for the Presidency of the Republic dancing the night away in a discotheque, throwing themselves out of a kayak during a daredevil
EU border control system to be ‘reactivated on Monday’ at Lisbon airport – and then suspended again
After all the affirmations that hideous queues at border control gates at Lisbon airport had ‘nothing to do with the new European Entry/ Exit System (EES), the system is to
Firefighters’ weekend ambulance task force ‘called out 16 times’
Firefighters’ pro-active ambulance task force, mobilised for the weekend to back-up insufficient resources of INEM (the national medical emergency authority), were called out 16 times – and that was just
Trades union movement expects “large demonstration in Lisbon tomorrow”
CGTP, Portugal’s trades union confederation, is limbering up for a major demonstration against the government’s labour reform in Lisbon tomorrow. The focus is on forcing the executive of Luís Montenegro
Portugal’s state health service is FINE: there is just “perception of chaos”, insists PM
As the wider world seems to be spinning off its axis, Portugal’s prime minister has taken the opportunity to try and calm some of the worrying headlines surrounding the state-run
Iberian blackout prompts slowdown in renewable energy installations
APREN, Portugal’s renewable energy association, reveals that the Iberian Blackout last April prompted a year ‘marked by a decline in renewable energy incorporation, and an increase in natural gas production‘.