INFLATION: Support package to be announced for families
Marcelo ‘has spoken with PM but knows nothing of package’s contents’ Portugal’s majority Socialist government is due to announce measures today to face up to inflation. At the end of
Secretary of State and GALP CEO fly to Nigeria ‘to secure gas deliveries’
João Galamba guarantees cheap Nigerian gas will supply all demands of Portuguese households In a new ‘first’, the Portuguese government sent its representative João Galamba (secretary of State for Energy)
President piles pressure on government
Still hasn’t received formal notice of health minister’s resignation Pressure is building on Portugal’s government, with the clock ticking towards Monday when an extraordinary Council of Ministers is due to
Health minister quits; opposition demands “real change”
Health minister resigns after young mother dies in childbirth; Marta Temido’s replacement unlikely to be chosen before mid-September Tuesday morning saw the first major casualty of Portugal’s ‘absolute majority’ Socialist
PCP marks death of Mikhail Gorbachev
… very differently to Portugal’s president PCP communists have ‘done it again’. After a number of recent occasions where they seem to have shot themselves in both feet, they issued
Agriculture minister upsets sector yet again
Agricultural confederation says it won’t give in to “political bullying” With farmers and producers struggling to survive in the grip of the country’s worst drought in living memory, agriculture minister
Schools return with “no Covid measures”
Government leaves measures of prevention up to individuals… for now Schools are starting the new academic year “without measures of combat against the propagation of Covid-19”. In a nutshell this
Parish councils still waiting for €5 million in ‘reimbursement’ for Covid expenses
Bills go right back to March 2020… The worst of this financial ‘drama’ is that parishes have realised the current State Budget doesn’t even envisage paying their bills. ANAFRE, the
Twitter government: parties start reacting to Portugal’s disconnect
Country has government of “many ‘tweets’ but few solutions” August has barely begun but social and political ‘dis-ease’ is becoming ever more strident. With the health service lurching from crisis
TAP pilots stage dramatic demo outside company’s Lisbon HQ
Challenge infrastructures minister Pedro Nuno Santos to “assume mistake” TAP’s miserable summer of discontent continues today, in spite of the airline’s rallying call to workers to ‘come on board’ with