Parliament to debate Monday’s blackout, amid “seething opposition criticism”
Opposition accuses government of compounding crisis with communications blackout In the aftermath of the nationwide energy blackout on Monday, Parliament is to debate the “vulnerabilities” of Portugal’s electrical system today,
Energy exchange with Spain closed down as precaution
Government focused on trying to ensure nationwide blackout doesn’t happen again Moves are underway in multiple directions to try to secure Portugal’s ‘energetic sovereignty’ following Monday’s nationwide blackout. While the
Final pre-election debate between PM and arch rival scheduled for 8.30pm tomorrow
Pedro Nuno Santos already in full ‘battle cry’ over government’s handling of blackout With PS secretary-general Pedro Nuno Santos – the arch rival of prime minister Luís Montenegro, focused on
Televised pre-election ‘head to heads’ end tomorrow with ‘great debate’ between main party leaders
Luís Montenegro faces chief adversary Pedro Nuno Santos, three weeks before country goes to polls Following weeks of fairly lacklustre televised debates between party leaders, the final showdown between Portugal’s
Government asks Brussels to trigger defence spending exception clause
Portugal inches towards increasing defence spending to potential of 3% Portugal’s government is going to ask the European Commission to activate the clause that allows an exception to compliance with
Durão Barroso, former European Commission president, weighs into defence dithering
Warns of fragmentation in speech at Military Academy in Amadora Former Portuguese political heavyweight, Durão Barroso, has weighed into the defence spending debate today, saying the fundamental problem in Europe
Thousands sign petition against digital euro, fearing it could undermine “fundamental rights”
ECB president Christine Lagarde “pushing for digital euro to become reality by October” The European Central Bank (ECB) believes that the adoption of the digital euro will lead to the
Portuguese-Canadians investing in ‘most important election in decades’
Three of election front-runners are Portuguese-Canadians Three Portuguese-Canadian candidates, two for the Liberal Party and one for the New Democratic Party (NDP), are among the frontrunners in Canada’s federal election
Portugal’s former Socialist government blamed for “thousands of immigrants” arriving without full background checks
“Instead of correcting errors, Socialist government showed indifference” A new controversy has opened up over the Easter weekend: that of over 120,000 immigrants who were able to enter Portugal during
Government signs contracts for 3,300 palliative care beds
Need for palliative care beds in Portugal is immense Portugal’s caretaker government has signed 90 financing contracts today, worth €88 million, to create 3,300 places in the national palliative care