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
Outgoing health service CEO ‘refuses’ to compile plan for summer
Minister ‘surprised’: presumed plan would have been prepared months ago Outgoing SNS CEO Fernando Araújo has reportedly ‘refused’ to come up with a plan for the running of the health
Finance minister claims predecessor left public finances in “chaos”
Former PS Socialist finance minister Fernando Medina has reacted today to claims (by AD’s finance minister Joaquim Miranda Sarmento) that he left public finances in chaos. Mr Sarmento is simply
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
CHEGA calls for urgent hearing of defence minister following comments about young offenders
CHEGA has called for an urgent hearing of defence minister Nuno Melo following his comments over the weekend that perhaps young offenders (of minor offences) might be offered a stint
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
CHEGA to present formal vote of condemnation over President’s recent remarks
CHEGA has announced that it will be presenting a formal vote of condemnation against President Marcelo’s recent remarks about “the need to pay” for Portugal’s colonial ‘crimes’ of hundreds of
European parliament ‘open mouthed’ by choices of PS secretary-general
PS secretary-general Pedro Nuno Santos has reportedly rendered the European parliament ‘open mouthed’ by his ‘total break’ with all previous Socialist Euro MPs. In other words, he is fielding an
Former PM’s new media roles begin on May 4
Portugal’s former prime minister António Costa is moving into the world of political commentary. He will be one of the main attractions of the new ‘NOW’ channel, promoted by Medialivre,
Urgent hearings of former and current finance ministers approved
MPs seek to grill both on how they justify calculations Former finance minister Fernando Medina, and current finance minister Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, are to face parliamentary hearings – the first