Almost 40,000 workers face the chop as Government refuses to budge on State Budget
Despite the controversial decision by Constitutional Court judges to veto key Government spending cuts for next year’s state budget, Finance Minister Maria Luís Albuquerque is forging ahead as planned. Her
Win rounds of golf at CS golf courses
Janet Tartaglia has just received some late donations from CS Hotels and Resorts: rounds of golf at either the Morgado or Álamos golf courses and the Salgados course (18 holes
Brussels cranks-up pressure on Portuguese government to act over asbestos
It has taken months of pressure, but at last the EC has pronounced on the ongoing fight to get the government to deal with the hundreds of public buildings, many
Damning IMF report comes as Portugal’s deficit increases by 7 billion
As Eurostat reports that Portugal’s deficit has increased by 7 billion – tipping it six full percentage points over the government’s expectations – a damning new report commissioned by the
Portugal’s disgraced BES bank chief and Deputy PM Paulo Portas travel to Angola in separate bids for financial support
Angola is the chosen destination this week of Deputy PM Paulo Portas, days after the disgraced former BES banking boss Ricardo Salgado allegedly travelled to Luanda in a bid for
Health service shake-up as 102 job vacancies open in the Algarve
It’s official: the management of the Algarve’s three basic emergency units in Loulé, Albufeira and Vila Real de Santo António will be taken over by the Centro Hospitalar do Algarve
Spanish Bank BBVA cancels Portugal sale, blaming fallout from BES
Problems assailing the Grupo Espírito Santo and impacting on the country’s BES bank have prompted Spanish bankers at BBVA to pull-out of their much-publicised bailout from Portugal. According to Spanish
PSP on high alert over controversial teachers’ test planned for tomorrow
As teachers movement Boicote & Cerco (Boycott and Siege) threatens renewed protests up and down the country, PSP police are reported to be on high alert for tomorrow’s controversial teachers’
Shareholders sue PT over €900 million ‘lost’ in BES scandal
As the Attorney General’s office announces it has launched ‘various inquiries’ into the banking crisis within Grupo Espírito Santo (GES), news comes that as many as 50 shareholders in Portugal
BMW to recall 13,000 Portuguese cars over “airbag concerns”
German car company BMW has announced that it will be recalling around 13,000 cars of its 3 Series in Portugal due to concerns over a possible defect in the airbag