Target of delivering 26,000 homes to families by June 2026 ‘on track’
10,000 homes have already been ‘delivered’ according to terms of PRR The Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing announced today that 10,000 homes have already been delivered to families under the
New law on immigration may come back to bite Portugal where it hurts
Indian entrepreneur gives SIC his reading of legal changes An Indian businessman who goes by the name of Franky has given SIC Notícias his reading of the government’s ‘get tough
State of Nation debate “handed out benefits” ahead of municipal elections
AD focused on municipalities voting their way With the State of the Nation debate over – and all the mutual insults now settled like dust where they fell – leader
Hundreds of public sector workers demand 15% pay rises
Union reps deliver “series of demands” to prime minister’s official residence With the media focused on this afternoon’s State of the Nation debate in parliament, hundreds of public sector workers
State of Nation debate opens with reductions in business tax
… and increase in pensions supplement With the country’s left-wing parties bristling in ‘outrage’ over the government’s sense of calm in ‘getting things done’, the State of the Nation debate
Loures mayor exacerbates schism within PS Socialist party
Declares demolition of shanty homes “will continue” Ricardo Leão, the mayor of Loures, a northern suburb of Portugal’s capital city, Lisbon, has exacerbated the schism within the PS Socialist party,
Immigration, health set to top State of Nation debate
The second State of the Nation debate to be led by Portugal’s prime minister, Luís Montenegro, tomorrow is expected to focus on health and immigration – and on how the
Changes to law regulating foreigners gets parliamentary approval, in spite of critics
Minority parties decry government’s haste Key amendments, tightening the Portuguese law regulating foreigners were approved in parliament this afternoon, thanks to votes from AD (the PSD and CDS-PP coalition in
Inquiry opens into one of CHEGA’s ‘most distasteful’ political stunts
CHEGA leader André Ventura made political capital out of names of foreign children in Lisbon school The truly distasteful political stunt by CHEGA leader André Ventura earlier this month in
No political shakeups in Portimão and Olhão since ‘76
The Algarve boroughs of Olhão and Portimão are two of just 27 in Portugal that have never changed their political colours since Portugal’s Carnation Revolution. Since the very first local