All change for airline passengers with Covid Digital Certificates … but not in Portugal
According to new EU ‘rules’ (which are essentially recommendations), today is the moment that airline passengers with valid Covid Digital Certificates can fly anywhere in community space without being bound
Hospital must pay €15,000 for refusing work to breastfeeding mother
Porto appeal court judges have confirmed a previous judicial decision to condemn the Baixo Vouga hospital authority (CHBV) to paying €15,000 in compensation for refusing work to a woman who
Setúbal public prosecutors “without resources”: “serious failings” reported in official documents
The services of the Public Ministry in Setúbal have “the most serious failings in officials of justice” and also lack magistrates to allow the “differentiated treatment of more complex criminal
Inspectors ‘flee’ SEF due to uncertainty as tens of thousands of Brits still ‘high and dry’
News in tabloid Correio da Manhã is that inspectors attached to SEF, Portugal’s borders and foreigners agency, are ‘fleeing’ the service to work for European counterpart Frontex. The reason is
Portugal set to ‘surpass growth forecasts in 2022’: finance ministry
On its first heady day back in business, the government has announced that it is hoping to surpass forecasts for economic growth in 2022. A note from the office of
Portugal ‘4th in world and 3rd in EU for number of new contagions’
Further proof today that the vaccines have no effect on the high transmissibility of Omicron: Portugal is being classified by national media as the fourth in the world, and third
Seven years jail: former mayor of killer-fire municipality “surprised” by condemnation
Valdemar Alves, the former mayor of Pedrógão Grande – the epicentre of death during 2017’s wildfires – has received a seven year jail sentence over the house rebuilding programme that
Voting dismay: “Everything went well in Portugal, but elsewhere it was a disaster…”
Sunday’s elections missed out on thousands of potential votes from Portuguese citizens living abroad – some even in spite of a number of nationals doing ‘everything they possibly could’ to
Absolute majority! Portugal votes in four more years of Socialism
PS Socialists – particularly their leader prime minister António Costa – received the best election results they could have hoped for last night, taking the party into ‘historic’ new territory.
“Clear Socialist victory”: exit poll suggests PM Costa will be getting his way
Shouts of victory have already been heard through the halls of Lisbon’s Hotel Altis where PS Socialists are anxiously awaiting the results of today’s snap elections. All exit polls are