Portugal to invest €4 billion in ports over 10 years
Portugal’s Minister of Infrastructure, Miguel Pinto Luz, presented the government’s strategy for its ports for 2025-2035. The minister said the aim was to compete with Spain’s ports but admitted that
Government turns tables on doctors who quit SNS to become agency workers
Portugal’s centre-right government has come up with a strategy to stop ‘losing doctors’ to agencies which then hire those doctors out to the state at ‘vastly inflated sums’. The idea,
Sabugal urges government to declare state of calamity
The municipal council of Sabugal is calling on the government to declare a state of calamity in the municipality to help residents most affected by the fires. The decision was
Government acknowledges some ‘lack of coordination’ in fighting fires
In a headline that will have certain quarters snorting in derision, Lusa news agency writes that the ‘government acknowledges some lack of coordination in fighting fires’ that have relentlessly assailed
CHEGA leader calls for dismissal of Minister of Interior Administration
With independent television journalists reporting tirelessly on Portugal’s continuing wildfire calamity, it has become glaringly obvious that many communities are being left to fight walls of advancing flames on their
Government wants jail for owners of high-speed launches without flags or identification
While the north of the country is running ragged chasing wildfires, it is ‘business as usual’ in Lisbon where members of government not in the south on holiday are sending
Barmy breast-feeding debate takes even further ridiculous turn
Portugal’s barmy breast-feeding debate has taken on an even more ridiculous turn today, as it emerges that the minister (of labour, solidarity and social security) – who claimed some mothers
Immigration: government admits it may (have to) alter ‘Foreigners law’
Portugal’s AD government has admitted today that it may have to alter measures set out in its controversial ‘Foreigners law’. At the press conference this afternoon following the weekly Council
Enter E-Lar – new plan to encourage people to give up gas appliances
Minister for the environment and energy, Maria da Graça Carvalho, has presented a new plan, “open to everyone”, who wants to give up their gas appliances (cookers/ hobs/ hot-water boilers)
Minister of Labour ignites breast-feeding indignation
Portugal’s minister of labour, solidarity and social security, Maria do Rosário Palma Ramalho, has unleashed a torrent of indignation by claiming that some mothers breastfeed their children until later in