“The poor will starve or freeze this winter unless governments act”
Salaries and social benefits “must be linked to inflation”, says UN special rapporteur In a stark message marking International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, United Nations special rapporteur Olivier
Government to spend around €36.5 Million on World Youth Day 2023
Portugal’s government expects to spend €36.5 million on hosting the next World Youth Day – or WYD2023, as it is also known – an event for young people organised by
Employers’ confederation shows confidence in government’s 2023 financial strategy
Following a few ‘false starts’ (like the wrangle between the economy minister and the finance minister over potential cuts to the IRC business tax), António Saraiva, president of Portugal’s employers’
Government lays out proposed salary increases for 2023
Syndicates have yet to comment on ‘differentiated’ plan, ‘favouring lower paid workers’ The government has put its ‘ducks in a row’ today, ahead of salary negotiations due to go ahead
“Government in paralysis”; “PM lacking authority”
Former president of Republic launches new attack Aníbal Cavaco Silva may be a political has-been, but like Tony Blair in the UK, he doesn’t see things that way. The former
GNR union plans vigils, protest due to ‘great discontent’
The largest association representing GNR officers announced on Thursday plans to stage vigils and a demonstration in October due to what it described as the “great discontent and demotivation” of
€2.4bn support package against inflation “a handful of nothing”
Early on Wednesday morning, Expresso published an article explaining how the government is preparing to “bury” a law passed in 2008 ensuring that pensions keep rising with inflation. The move
Government believes in 6.4% growth in GDP this year
Portugal’s government is working with a GDP growth rate this year of 6.4%, an upward revision from the previously expected 4.9%, writes Lusa today. The announcement came from finance minister
Portugal has government of “many ‘tweets’ but few solutions”
August has barely begun but social and political ‘dis-ease’ in Portugal is becoming ever more apparent. With the health service lurching from crisis to crisis; energy suppliers warning of rising
EU funding bazooka cold-shoulders private enterprise
Portugal’s business confederation dubs situation “ridiculous” The great EU funding ‘bazooka’ is freezing out private enterprise. Depending on which news reports one reads, public entities are either receiving “11 times