Union announces health workers strike for entirety of 2026
The last day of the year has seen the National Syndicate of Workers in Services and Public Entities deliver notice of an open-ended strike of all health workers for 2026,
Presidential campaign lurches sideways: ballot papers include ‘excluded candidates’
The already tense atmosphere surrounding next month’s presidential elections received a new frisson of alarm yesterday when it became clear that ballot papers have been printed with the names of
Gouveia e Melo gets a taste of ‘political karma’
Days after the explosive ‘final debate’ of the presidential campaign – the moment Gouveia e Melo ‘turned the proverbial screws’ on PSD adversary Luís Marques Mendes – Sábado has broken
President rubber-stamps proposal for ‘high performance obstetric centres’
President Marcelo has today ‘enacted the creation of high performance centres in the field of obstetrics and gynecology, hoping that it will allow for systemic and lasting responses and that
Heated exchanges continue to sully already unprecedented presidential campaign
Portugal’s bitter presidential campaign – almost certainly the most bizarre in the country’s history of democracy – shows no sign of calming for the final three weeks of street rallies
Portuguese man shot by U.S. immigration agents in raid on outskirts of Baltimore
A Portuguese man ‘living illegally’ in the United States for the last 17 years was shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Christmas Eve after “refusing to stop
Presidential campaign: CHEGA leader appeals ruling over ‘gypsy billboards’
As the country’s ‘presidential race’ enters the final strait, the reality is that the presence of CHEGA leader André Ventura has helped make it remarkably unprecedented. Never before has the
Foreign minister urged to ‘come clean’ over VIP flight from Guinea-Bissau transporting €5 million in cash
Portugal’s Socialist Party wants to understand what was going on when a flight from Guinea-Bissau arrived in Figo Maduro airport, carrying a number of VIP passengers and transporting at least
Yet another ship bound for Israel carrying military kit flies Portuguese flag
In what carries the whiff of yet another ‘groundhog day’ faux-pas by Portuguese authorities, a further ship flying the Portuguese flag has been identified as transporting military equipment to Israel.
Brussels to ‘reassess immigrant situation in Portugal’ as it seeks to ‘redistribute 21,000 refugees’
Brussels has agreed to ‘reassess’ Portugal’s immigrant situation after the government said ‘no can do’ to its plan to ‘redistribute’ 21,000 asylum seekers under the ‘European Solidarity Mechanism’. The government’s