Growth of extreme right-wing “a threat for Portugal”
Discrimination || Portugal has “the ingredients” for a surge of the extreme right-wing. Who says this is the outgoing High Commissioner for Migrations, Maria Rosário Farmhouse, who told Lusa news
Benagil’s stunning cave makes it onto world’s ‘top coolest’ list
Benagil’s beautiful sea cave is listed in the world’s “Top 10 Coolest Caves” published this week by American online newspaper The Huffington Post. Describing the natural rock formation, the website
Petition against hotel planned for Madeleine dig site
Praia da Luz residents are up-in-arms yet again. After the start of the summer was marred by battalions of police digging up the village in their searches for clues on
Five injured in head-on crash on EN125
Five people have been injured – one of them seriously – in a head-on car crash this afternoon (June 27) on the stretch of the EN125 road between Pêra and
Back in the red… new statistics on Portugal’s battered economy
Alarm bells are ringing once again over the (real) state of Portuguese economy. Reporting today, business news website Negócios quotes data from INE, the statistics institute, which it says “registers
armed gang hold up Lidl store in Portugal
Staff and customers at Lidl’s outlet in Fermentões, Guimarães, cowered in panic on Monday morning when three armed men burst in, demanding money from the tills. The men, all brandishing
Despite UK veto, Juncker all set to be EC’s new president
As the UK prime minister David Cameron gets endlessly repeated airtime to say cognac-swilling Jean-Claude Junker is “not the man for the job”, it looks increasingly likely that the former
Summer flooding forces people from their home in Portugal
Summer floods have left at least 11 people needing re-housing in the areas of Setúbal and Barreiro. Extraordinary as it sounds, intense rain on Monday flooded two apartment buildings in
Germany’s finance minister dubs Portugal a “success story” as President Cavaco calls crisis meeting
President of Portugal Cavaco Silva has called a Council of State ‘crisis meeting’ for Thursday next week after a debate on the ‘state of the nation’ in Parliament saw renewed
Beach weather returns to Algarve!
Warm temperatures, reaching up to 28ºC, and clear skies are expected in southern Portugal this weekend after a week of cloudy and sometimes rainy weather. In the rest of Portugal,