MEP and former IL leader João Cotrim de Figueiredo joins ‘presidential race’
João Cotrim de Figueiredo, currently a Euro MP, formerly the leader of an emerging Iniciativa Liberal, has announced his candidacy for the President of the Republic saying he would like
Portugal’s IL party (also) wants Foreigners Law passed “as soon as possible”
With Marcelo’s power of veto now exhausted, and the reality that a number of Constitutional Court judges saw nothing wrong with the government’s diploma, it now looks highly likely that
PS leader writes third letter to prime minister: this time on housing crisis
In yet another apparent attempt to get the prime minister ‘on side’, PS leader José Luís Carneiro has written a third letter to Luís Montenegro, this time on solutions he
New boatload of migrants arrive on Algarve coast, hours after Constitutional Court’s immigration ‘bombshell’
Two hours after Portugal’s Constitutional Court informed the government that its plans for controlling immigration violated the Constitution (drawn up long before such problems existed), a rickety wooden boat arrived
Constitutional Court vetoes certain clauses of Foreigners Law
After holding the country in anticipation for a full hour, Portugal’s Constitutional Court delivered its ruling on the Foreigners’ Law early this evening. The law was passed in some haste
Barmy breast-feeding debate takes even further ridiculous turn
Portugal’s barmy breast-feeding debate has taken on an even more ridiculous turn today, as it emerges that the minister (of labour, solidarity and social security) – who claimed some mothers
Portugal “deeply concerned” by Israeli plan to ‘occupy Gaza’
As other countries like Germany and UK show their displeasure, Portugal is calling for Israel to suspend its decision to occupy Gaza, and instead implement a ceasefire. “The Portuguese Government
Immigration: government admits it may (have to) alter ‘Foreigners law’
Portugal’s AD government has admitted today that it may have to alter measures set out in its controversial ‘Foreigners law’. At the press conference this afternoon following the weekly Council
Syndicates report Algarve-wide health strike “affecting emergency services, outpatient consultations and Faro surgical bloc”
With the syndicates behind it already reporting that the 24-hour strike in the Algarve’s state health sector is affecting emergency services, outpatient consultations and the operation of the operating room
Living costs put students off university education
University students have reacted to the news today that numbers applying for university have dipped drastically this year, saying that the high financial costs of studying away from home prevent