Agriculture minister upsets sector yet again
Agricultural confederation says it won’t give in to “political bullying” With farmers and producers struggling to survive in the grip of the country’s worst drought in living memory, agriculture minister
Schools return with “no Covid measures”
Government leaves measures of prevention up to individuals… for now Schools are starting the new academic year “without measures of combat against the propagation of Covid-19”. In a nutshell this
Parish councils still waiting for €5 million in ‘reimbursement’ for Covid expenses
Bills go right back to March 2020… The worst of this financial ‘drama’ is that parishes have realised the current State Budget doesn’t even envisage paying their bills. ANAFRE, the
Twitter government: parties start reacting to Portugal’s disconnect
Country has government of “many ‘tweets’ but few solutions” August has barely begun but social and political ‘dis-ease’ is becoming ever more strident. With the health service lurching from crisis
TAP pilots stage dramatic demo outside company’s Lisbon HQ
Challenge infrastructures minister Pedro Nuno Santos to “assume mistake” TAP’s miserable summer of discontent continues today, in spite of the airline’s rallying call to workers to ‘come on board’ with
Marcelo rubber-stamps government’s new health statute
… with serious doubts about creation of “new executive direction” Officially, the government has “welcomed promulgation of the new national health service statute” by President Marcelo today, stressing it
Outcry over shambolic crisis in obstetric care
Another weekend of mass maternity unit closures PM António Costa will be returning from a short holiday break on Monday to face molten fury over the unconscionable crisis in obstetric
Portugal prolongs “Covid situation of alert”
In spite of numbers falling below well danger levels set by experts Portugal’s government has today prolonged the situation of alert regarding Covid-19 for another month, when all data shows
Portugal hits targets to end mask wearing on public transports
But no joy from public health doctors: barely a squeak from government Upbeat news this week that Portugal has attained the conditions defined by experts to drop the requirement to
Portugal “won’t suffer disproportionately” from crisis in Italy – minister
But Europe as a whole will suffer The current political instability in Italy is harmful to the European Union but, while this affects the whole of Europe, Portugal will not