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
Inês Sousa Real re-elected as official PAN spokesperson
Inês de Sousa Real, the one and only MP representing PAN (People’s Animals Nature party) in parliament has won her bid to be re-elected as the party’s spokesperson, having clinched
Former Portuguese president puts boot into “disjointed, directionless” government
“Specialists in lying, propaganda and tricks” Portugal’s former president Aníbal Cavaco Silva has today accused the country’s absolute majority Socialist government of being experts in “lies and propaganda”, and leading
PAN to hold ninth party congress with leader, sole MP under attack
PAN ‘lost’ MPs under current leader Inês Sousa Real PAN, the People Animals Nature party that made such strides in the early days when it had just one MP in
South Africa foreign minister to visit “to discuss areas of common interest”
The head of South Africa’s diplomatic service is visiting Portugal today, ostensibly to discuss international and regional issues of “common interest” and prepare for the visit of Portuguese president Marcelo
Economic relations with Angola still far from reaching potential – minister
Portugal’s foreign affairs minister, João Gomes Cravinho, believes that despite being “intense”, economic relations between Portugal and Angola are “still far from fulfilling their potential” and that the two countries
EU election dates “highly inconvenient for Portugal”
Government sets out to ‘change rules’… Portugal’s government has lost the first round in its determined battle to change the dates of the European elections. Now, it is setting out
Secretary general of NATO to visit Portugal on Thursday
Jens Stoltenberg will give joint press conference with PM following meeting NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg will be in Portugal on Thursday for a meeting with the prime minister António Costa.
PCP communists visit China
Trip to see “exchange of reciprocal ideas and allow better understanding of reality of People’s Republic of China” A delegation of PCP communists, led by the party’s secretary general Paulo
Political crisis: Iniciativa Liberal works with PSD to prepare new government
With no let up in behind-scenes agitation over Portugal’s state of political crisis, a centre right ‘coalition’ seems to be forming between PSD and IL (Iniciativa Liberal). Leaders of the