Attorney General hopes Spinumviva decision ‘ready for Christmas’
Attorney General Amadeu Guerra said today that he ‘hopes’ the preliminary investigation into the Spinumviva case – involving the family of Prime Minister Luís Montenegro – will be completed by
Goods drivers and truckers join Thursday’s general strike
With less than two days to go before the country comes to a standstill, another union has announced its support for the protest. It represents drivers of hazardous materials and
“Europe under attack” – António Costa responds to ‘threats and interference’ from US
In another surreal week in which the Trump administration has revealed that it seeks to ‘aggressively pursue objectives of aligning Europe to the North American vision’ in numerous spheres –
PM announces €500 million credit line for investment in Mozambique
The prime minister announced today that Portugal will provide a €500 million credit line to encourage Portuguese companies to invest in Mozambique. Luís Montenegro was speaking alongside Mozambique’s president, Daniel
Tuesday morning ‘briefly news’
Moliceiro boats Another ‘ancient Portuguese tradition’ – the art of making Aveiro’s Moliceiro boats – has joined the list of intangible heritage that a UNESCO committee believes should be safeguarded.
Economist’s accolade ‘good – but Portugal remains country of enormous inequalities’
Minister for the economy and territorial cohesion, Manuel Castro Almeida, has given a frank interview today, confirming that Portugal has outdone itself in terms of other countries economically this year
Algarve university researcher leads team in Oman desert discovery
An international team of archaeologists led by a researcher from the Portuguese University of the Algarve have used techniques inspired by forensic science to reconstruct a story of adaptation and
Next president ‘has to take job to new level’ – analysts
The next Portuguese president will have to be capable of uniting the community and moving from being a secondary figure to “the most prestigious figure in institutions,” according to political
Two years on many people ‘swindled’ by banker “still waiting for their money”
Two years after clients of Ericeira’s Millennium BCP bank woke up to the fact that their accounts were missing what amounted, all told, to “millions of euros”, public prosecutors are
Thursday general strike threatens to spill over to Friday
Public sector unions are calling on their members to hold a ‘second day of paralysation’ this week, following the general strike on Thursday. This way, strikers will get (yet another)