Almost 2,500 Portuguese nurses seek leave to emigrate since start of pandemic
Another stark indication that the government is not doing enough to keep the healthcare staff that it has has come today with publication by the nurses official body (Ordem dos
Portugal accused of offering nurses “crackers while other countries give caviar”
Portugal has been accused of offering its nurses ‘crackers’ while other countries give caviar. It was simply another form of explaining the miserable salaries and conditions offered nationally, at a
Crisis more than Covid is keeping Portugal’s emigrés away
“More than the fear of catching Covid-19” is the crisis that Portuguese emigrés are living through right now, and for this reason, the country is not expecting many of them
Portuguese “clamour for British passports”
Portuguese emigrés resident in UK are described as “clamouring for British passports”. Last year, 1905 Portuguese nationals applied “to become British”, representing a 50% increase on applications the year before.
More Portuguese are emigrating to Sweden
Sweden has registered an upsurge in the number of Portuguese citizens choosing it as an emigration destination. National tabloid Correio da Manhã reports that last year 330 Portuguese workers entered
Portugal’s “economic upturn” fails to stem emigration
In the first six months of 2015, as many as 10,000 Portuguese joined the ranks of the hundreds of thousands that have left the country in the last four years.
Portugal emigration figures up 53,000
It’s bleak reading. Of the 128.000 Portuguese who left their home country in search of a better life and conditions last year, more than half were under 30 – and