PM lands in Beijing ahead of meeting with President Xi
A week after the world’s press featured a lavish military parade in Beijing involving China’s president Xi Jinping, and Russian and North Korean counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un, Portugal’s
Lisbon mayor promises to resign if funicular tragedy “caused by error of own making”
With so much being aired about the political responsibility/ ies for the appalling funicular disaster last week, Lisbon mayor Carlos Moedas said on air last night that he will resign
Glória funicular tragedy: CHEGA presents motion of censure against Lisbon City Council
Almost 48-hours on from the worst human tragedy to visit Lisbon this century, knives are beginning to ‘come out’ – and they are all pointing at Lisbon City Council. Early
University dean and education minister in very public barny over ‘high standards’ required for students of medicine
Expresso today has aired the now very public barny involving the dean of Porto University and Education Minister Fernando Alexandre. The essence of the spat centres on Portugal’s ‘rigorous entry
Former PM Sócrates denies “putting money in his pocket” with houses in Venezuela
COMMENT: Former prime minister José Sócrates insisted in court today that he didn’t put “money in (his) pocket” by selecting the Lena group for a project to build social housing
Angola doesn’t understand proposed changes to nationality law
José Luís Carneiro, leader of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS), said today, on arrival in Lisbon, that the Angolan authorities with whom he had contact in Luanda do not understand
Graduates’ backs against wall as government changes goalposts
From now on, university graduates who have not yet ‘benefited from the reimbursement of student fees’ will have to choose between this perk (passed into law two years ago by
PM denies ‘hiding’ all 55 properties from public scrutiny
No-one who has just announced a massive financial and impetus boost to tackle Portugal’s housing crisis would want to be on the front pages again today, for bending the truth.
PM announces new boost to housing thanks to €1.3 billion credit line
Opposition parties are still calling for more by way of explanations, but the prime minister closed the week’s PSD Summer University in Castelo de Vide today with major announcements on
Marcelo’s description of President Trump as Russian asset “goes viral”
COMMENT: President Marcelo’s damning description last week of US President Donald Trump as a Russian asset has gone predictably ‘viral’ over ‘news providers’ that most people have never heard of.