Tax relief for businesses and young people, and higher pensions: key pillars of 2025 State Budget
Budget will be voted on November 30 The next voting stage of Portugal’s proposed 2025 State Budget, which sees each proposal being voted on individually in parliament, started today with
Former PS leader also “thinking” of running for Portugal’s next president
With national media in a froth over the potential candidacy of Chief of Staff of the Navy Admiral Gouveia e Melo for the presidency in 2026, CNN has reported that
Health minister in new controversy after financial forecast revised (massively) downwards
Health minister Ana Paula Martins is in a new controversy today, regarding her review of financial forecasts given to the parliamentary committee regarding next year’s State Budget. To the committee,
PAN jumps at ‘stealthing’
It’s a new buzzword in Portugal: ‘stealthing’ – meaning someone who whips their condom off during sex, without the consent of their sexual partner; and PAN has been the first
Right turn: Portugal plays down Trump landslide
“We work with any American administration” – foreign affairs minister On the face of it, Portugal’s centre-right government is ‘welcoming’ last week’s resounding victory by Donald Trump in the US
Madeira buffeted by new political crisis
Madeira could be on the way for its third legislative elections in 18 months if the motion of censure presented by CHEGA is successful. CHEGA cites the various corruption investigations
Marcelo meets CHEGA in Belém, receives formal written protest
Portugal’s president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa received dozens of CHEGA MPs at Belém Palace today, in response to party leader André Ventura’s request to present him with a protest, in
Knives out in PS Socialist party: former PM slams Socialist mayor
Controversy centres on remarks made by mayor in wake of Lisbon rioting Knives are out in Portugal’s PS Socialist hierarchy: leading figures in the main opposition party, including former prime
CHEGA ‘outraged’ by President’s unscheduled trip to troubled neighbourhoods
Party prepares “formal complaint” for president’s “deplorable partiality” The unscheduled visit by President Marcelo to neighbourhoods and families scarred by unrest following the police shooting last month of Odair Moniz
Budget ‘debate in generality’ kicks off this afternoon
Parliament this afternoon begins the first of two sessions of debate on the proposed 2025 State Budget – a document President Marcelo has said must be approved, or he will