Portugal accused of reducing immigrants to status of economic tools
“Country has forgotten these are people who need to be integrated” Into an already complicated picture, the director general of the Jesuit Refugee Service has accused Portugal of reducing immigrants
Seven years jail for ringleaders of gang that terrorised immigrants in OIhão
Gang attacked at least 15 immigrants in space of a month The two main ringleaders of a gang of young teens that terrorised Indian and Nepalese immigrants in the Algarve
International tender launched for second high-speed rail section PPP
Infraestruturas de Portugal (IP), the state-owned company that oversees road and rail infastructure in Portugal, has launched the international tender for a planned public-private partnership (PPP) for the second section
Naval shipyard up for sale? “No comment” – minister
“What’s important is safeguarding jobs”, says Nuno Melo Nuno Melo, Portugal’s minister of defence has today declined to answer whether the government is considering privatising “Arsenal do Alfeite”, the company
Red deer return to Sintra-Cascais Natural Park after 500 years
Eleven Iberian red deer were reintroduced into the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park last night (due to a seven hour hold up due to the wildfire that hit the A2 motorway near
Try Guia’s famous chicken next week
Guia is famous in Portugal for its chicken Guia, a small town in Albufeira famous in Portugal for its unique grilled chicken recipe, will host its Chicken Party (Festa do
German prosecutors fail in bids to remove judges hearing trial against Maddie suspect
Braunschweig Public Prosecutor’s office has failed in two bids to remove judges in the cases they have brought against Christian Brückner– the final suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
PJ police seize almost 18 kilos of cocaine at Sines port
PJ police are celebrating another ‘cocaine coup’ following seizures in ‘Operation Freezer’ – an investigation (still ongoing) which saw 17.7 kilos of cocaine, corresponding to around 1,770 individual doses, concealed
PM announces increase in military supplement to €300
Prime minister Luís Montenegro has announced a major increase to the ‘military condition supplement’ (a sum awarded to all military personnel in the Armed Forces) and up till now fixed
Mystery over what really happened to ‘missing German digital nomad’ persists
German investigators say he was burnt to death; PJ ‘has no evidence’ The mystery over what really happened to missing German digital nomad Artur Lorenz persists. Earlier this month, German