PM in hot water over football stop-over in Hungary
Costa diverts Air Force jet to watch Euro final alongside Viktor Orbán PM António Costa has managed to unite all parties in outrage by being photographed sitting alongside ultraconservative Hungarian
PM evokes memory of victims of fires of Pedrógão Grande in series of tweets
Promises to visit memorial which opened last week without ceremony This year’s anniversary of the killer fires of Pedrógão Grande’ has been marred by messy controversy. Yesterday came the news
Portugal’s PM visits Angola to “cement political relations with João Lourenço”
PM expected to sign various new agreements “in areas of bilateral cooperation and investment” Officially, the PM António Costa’s two-day visit to Angola, starting tomorrow, is seen as the start
PM accuses Cavaco of “fuelling right wing frenzy”
Portugal’s prime minister António Costa has reacted to the brutal speech over the weekend by former president Cavaco Silva, accusing the octogenarian of fuelling the right wing’s “frenzy” to provoke
Portugal’s PM in Iceland to learn from geothermal experience
PM António Costa is in Iceland today, ahead of tomorrow’s Council of Europe, to learn about the country’s geothermal experience. Secretary of state for energy Ana Fontoura Gouveia suggests the
Political meltdown: PM refuses calls to remodel government
Prime Minister clashes with President following latest TAP-related PR disaster After days of extraordinary revelations – prompted by the parliamentary inquiry into exactly what is going on at State-controlled airline
Political crisis takes new turn as PM ‘refuses’ minister’s resignation
Costa admits “many may not understand, but I am acting on my conscience” In an extraordinary hour of live television, the country learnt this evening that infrastructures minister João Galamba
PM visits hypermarkets to ensure “prices are right”
PM António Costa visited two hypermarkets in Lisbon this morning, with a considerable press posse and gaggle of retail industry dignitaries, to ensure “prices are right” now that 0% IVA
Portugal’s PM promotes “largest lithium deposits in Europe” during visit to South Korea
PM also “offers access to European and Portuguese-speaking markets with 500 million people” Prime minister António Costa has been promoting what he describes as “the largest lithium deposits in Europe”
PM wants South Korean semiconductor factory in Portugal
Portugal’s prime minister António Costa has said today that one of the goals of his visit to South Korea is to attract investment from South Korean multinationals for European semiconductor