CHEGA calls for commission of inquiry into Portugal’s wildfires “and its business”
Portugal’s second political force, the new ‘opposition’ since last May’s elections, has announced that it is filing a request today for a commission of inquiry into the fires that have
PM makes series of announcements related to Portugal’s devastating wildfires
Prime minister Luís Montenegro made a series of announcements yesterday evening following an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers in Viseu to draw up ‘responses’ to the devastating wildfires
“Number of ambulance births not directly related to closure of maternity units”
SIC Notícias has been conducting interviews with government figures who appear to be shielding ministers under fire. Thus, after the fairly extraordinary interview with the secretary of state for civil
Government turns tables on doctors who quit SNS to become agency workers
Portugal’s centre-right government has come up with a strategy to stop ‘losing doctors’ to agencies which then hire those doctors out to the state at ‘vastly inflated sums’. The idea,
Portugal tells Kyiv: “We want you in the EU; we’re rooting for peace…”
Portugal’s Minister of State and Foreign Affairs, Paulo Rangel, reiterated today to Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister, Taras Kachka, Portugal’s support for the country joining the European Union (EU) and in
Government acknowledges some ‘lack of coordination’ in fighting fires
In a headline that will have certain quarters snorting in derision, Lusa news agency writes that the ‘government acknowledges some lack of coordination in fighting fires’ that have relentlessly assailed
CHEGA leader calls for dismissal of Minister of Interior Administration
With independent television journalists reporting tirelessly on Portugal’s continuing wildfire calamity, it has become glaringly obvious that many communities are being left to fight walls of advancing flames on their
PS leader dubs PM’s attack on Constitutional Court, journalists, analysts “incomprehensible”
The PSD party’s Festa do Pontal in Quarteira yesterday continues to make headlines for all the wrong reasons. This time it is for the content of the speech the prime
Presidential hopeful rides into battle against “leader” not on frontline with his people
Presidential hopeful Henrique Gouveia e Melo – the naval submarine commander turned Admiral of the Fleet before he retired – has done precisely what current president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
New Algarve hospital tender to be launched by October
Prime Minister Luís Montenegro, also leader of the PSD political party, announced yesterday that the construction plans for the Algarve Central Hospital will be launched by early October and represent