All parties, including PS, criticise government plan to penalise old vehicles
With almost 330,000 signatories on the petition to cancel the proposed hike in road fund tax for ‘old vehicles’ (pre-2007), it is looking increasingly as if the plan will have
CHEGA threatens to abstain over parliamentary text on Israel/ Hamas conflict
Party leader says CHEGA “will not accept ambiguous language” Portugal’s right-wing party CHEGA has threatened to abstain from the vote on a parliamentary text regretting the conflict between Israel and
WHO advisor becomes Portugal’s new director general of health
Rita Sá Machado worked with WHO during pandemic After months in which no-one knew who was going to take the baton as Portugal’s Director General of Health, the Ministry of
IL leader ‘challenges PM’ to drop proposed road fund tax hike on old vehicles
With the petition against the government’s proposal to massively increase road fund tax on old vehicles gaining new support by the hour the leader of Iniciativa Liberal, Rui Rocha, has
PSD announces it will be voting against government’s State Budget
No surprises today as PSD leader Luís Montenegro announces his party has decided to vote against the government’s proposed State Budget for 2024. Antipathy to the budget is running through
Former government ministry boss gets seven year jail sentence for abuse of power
João Alberto Correia’s case goes back almost 10 years A former director of infrastructure at Portugal’s ministry of the interior (MAI), João Alberto Correia, has been sentenced to seven years
Main aim of State Budget: “to shelter country from external turmoil”
Proposal “lift elderly out of poverty” two years early Portugal’s prime minister has said that the main aim of next year’s State Budget is to put Portugal in a safe
2024 State Budget: main points summarised
Document to be ‘presented in parliament tomorrow’ The 2024 budget proposal will be submitted to parliament on tomorrow, ahead of ‘discussion in parliament’ on October 30-31. Specialised discussions – where
2024 State Budget approved by extraordinary Council of Ministers
Portugal’s Socialist government’s State Budget for 2024 was approved in an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers yesterday. The document will be presented to parliament on Tuesday; is due
Left Bloc turns up heat over non-habitual resident tax regime
Calls for ‘immediate end’ to NHR as well as ban on sale of houses to non-habitual residents Left wing ‘radicals’ Bloco de Esquerda have seized on the announcement that Portugal’s