Minority parties approve end of (illegal) motorway tolls – or is it all just trickery?
End of Algarve’s reviled motorway tolls has ‘a date’ Overriding the government, the combined forces of minority parties last week approved the end of ex-SCUT motorway tolls – deemed illegal
Outgoing PM approved €2.5 billion in expenses – almost half AFTER election defeat
Barney over Portugal’s public accounts persists Billions of euros were left out of the PS government’s budget, Portugal’s finance minister Joaquim Miranda Sarmento has again insisted – telling a conference
Government seeks to block €100 million capital increase in Águas de Portugal
Ordered by prime minister António Costa, Portugal’s new AD government is stepping in to block the €100 million increase in capital in Águas de Portugal. Its decision comes over concerns
It’s official: Portugal in hands of opposition
Government’s defeat over tolls marked “Day O of new era: opposition governs Portugal” As weeks go, last week was a dreadful one for the centre-right government of Portugal which insists
Police feel “extremely wronged” by government’s offer to ‘make things right’
Minister’s calculations “open door to further protests” President of the National Union of Police Officers said today that his colleagues feel “extremely wronged” by the proposal presented yesterday by the government
Who’s in charge?!?
In a week where the country’s president has gone so wildly off-script that an entire satirical television show was dedicated to making fun of him, voices everywhere have started questioning
Ministry of Social Security analysing million-euro ‘last minute’ purchase by toppled government
One of the day’s developing ‘scandals’ is the purchase, by the PS government, one day after the legislative elections last month that topped it, of a property in Guarda for
Build, build, build – Portugal against clock to build 45,000 new homes per year
Vital European funding to tackle housing crisis “must be spent by 2026” With the dust settling on the new government’s ‘declaration of intent’ (its four-year programme designed to answer some
Government ‘guarantees’ police will get long-fought for mission supplement
Financial commitment to be presented on May 2 With “hopes high” for Monday’s first meetings between police syndicates and Margarida Blasco, Portugal’s new minister of internal affairs, president of the
Order of Physicians has six priorities for new minister for next 60 days
Seeks “a different path for the health system as a whole” Portugal’s Ordem dos Médicos (Order of Physicians) has “six priorities for the next 60 days” which it will be