José Socrates

Hometown || Former Socialist Prime Minister José Sócrates – famous for resigning in 2011 just as Portugal reached a climax of financial turmoil – is to be honoured by his

Former prime minister José Sócrates has now been caught up in the escalating spiral of financial scandals sweeping through Portugal’s elite. Days after BES banking mogul Ricardo Espírito Santo Salgado

Former PM José Sócrates has complained he is being persecuted by the country’s tabloid Correio da Manhã which this week revealed the serious crimes squad is investigating credit card payments

Portuguese politicians of all parties have rejected a 138,000-signature petition against the airing of weekly political commentary by former Socialist (PS) Prime Minister José Sócrates on Portuguese TV channel RTP.

After his spiritual retreat to Paris to study philosophy and his recent occupation as political commentator, former Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates is now to become a member of the

By CHRIS GRAEME chris.graeme@theresidentgroup.com Outgoing Prime Minister José Sócrates said on Monday that he would fight June 5’s general election with the aim of winning an absolute majority. He said

By CHRIS GRAEME chris.graeme@theresidentgroup.com The former leader of Portugal’s opposition PSD party believes that Prime Minister José Sócrates should never have struck a deal with Brussels over further austerity measures

By Chris Graeme chris.graeme@theresidentgroup.com Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates, in Berlin last week seeking political support from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, came away with a handful of empty words. The

By CHRIS GRAEME chris.graeme@mmspublishing.com Prime Minister José Sócrates has accepted the “limitations” that his relative majority government will have in its second term in office. That means that the government