Ex-PM Sócrates faces third night in police custody
As the prime minister who delivered Portugal to the hands of the troika hopes to be spared his third night at the PSP central command in Moscavide, news channels all
Ex-PM José Sócrates is detained on corruption charges
In what has been described in the international media as a “political earthquake”, former Portuguese PM José Sócrates is today in court facing a welter of tax evasion and corruption
Cavaco Silva under pressure to “decorate” José Sócrates
Portuguese media reports suggest that President Cavaco Silva is under increasing pressure to “decorate” former Prime Minister José Sócrates with the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ. According
Covilhã honours José Sócrates
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
Net tightens over former Socialist prime minister
After a flurry of ‘bad press’ on Thursday – implicating him in the Monte Branco money-laundering scandal that is also focusing on former BES boss Ricardo Salgado – José Sócrates
Ex-prime minister José Sócrates now implicated in Portugal’s escalating financial scandals
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
Sócrates accuses tabloid of persecution
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
Government rejects anti-Sócrates petition
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.
Former PM Sócrates takes on university council post
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