“Thank you, António, for an incredibly successful presidency”
Ursula von der Leyen marked the final meeting of the Council of the Europe under Portugal’s presidency of the Council of the European Union by thanking Portugal’s prime minister António
Vaccine ‘insubordination’ in Porto sees health centre director suspended
The director of health centres in east Porto has been suspended today as a police investigation opens into why she took it upon herself to start vaccinating 18-year-olds in an
Madeira put (grudgingly) on UK ‘green travel list’
The ‘good news’ is that Brits desperate for a holiday break in the sun heard last night that their government has opened up a handful of destinations – including Madeira
Albufeira and Lagos take STEP BACK; six Algarve boroughs on ‘ALERT’
Albufeira and Lagos are taking steps back in their plans to emerge from lockdown and are each facing new restrictions, Portugal’s Minister of State and Presidency Maria Vieira da Silva
“Algarve holiday hotspots unfairly penalised”: mayors renew call for government action
Algarve mayors stress popular tourist destinations are being unfairly penalised and reiterate their calls for the government to change the way it tallies Covid-19 cases. Their renewed plea came just
New blow to holiday confidence as PM admits “if European Council” votes to ban Brits, we will comply”
Just when anyone might think they had seen it all, Portugal’s PM has told reporters that if the European Council backs Angela Merkel’s ‘demand’ to ban Brits from quarantine-free travel
Family gatherings and long weekend tourists behind Algarve’s rising Covid cases, health delegate says
Family gatherings and the “large number of tourists” who visited the Algarve during early June’s long weekends could be behind the growing number of Covid-19 cases in the region, the
Crisis provoked by pandemic plunges another 400,000 Portuguese into poverty
The crisis provoked by the pandemic has plunged a further 400,000 Portuguese into poverty. This is the bottom line of a study published this week by the Catholic University –
Further upset as Angela Merkel ‘demands’ that all Britons arriving in EU’ go into quarantine
There is further upset in the tourism and hospitality sector today following news that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is ‘demanding’ that all EU countries enforce quarantine on any arriving Brits.
Portugal criticised for ‘opening doors to Delta variant’
As weeks in Portugal’s fight against the pandemic go, this has been a bad one. Faced with an increasing number of new cases of SARS-CoV-2 in the Greater Lisbon area,