Budget debate: PM pledges €25 per year increase in road fund tax for old vehicles
Following the outcry over government plans to reportedly hammer the owners of ‘old vehicles’ (pre-2007) with increases in road fund tax (IUC), the prime minister has finally dispatched the controversy,
2024 State Budget: debate begins in parliament
… with opposition focus on tax tweaks Portugal’s parliament begins two days of debate today in the first reading of the Socialist government’s budget bill for 2024. None of the
Former government aide sues PM and Minister of Infrastructures for defamation
Former government aide Frederico Pinheiro, sacked following one of the most bizarre and poorly recounted incidents in the PS Socialist government’s history of less than exemplary incidents, has filed a
Portuguese Euro MP nominated ‘co-rapporteur’ for expansion of EU
Notwithstanding the ‘warnings’ sounded by Finance Minister Fernando Medina about expansion eastwards of the EU, a Portuguese MEP has been nominated as ‘co-rapporteur’ for the process, to work alongside a
Opposition wants health service pact with State, parties, other sectors
Luís Montenegro, leader of Portugal’s Social Democratic Party has called today for a national pact for health, involving the government, parties and the State, social and private sectors, to end
Finance minister warns of “dangers of eastward EU expansion”
By arithmetic alone, Portugal will move to top of bloc’s ‘richest countries’ Portugal’s finance minister, Fernando Medina, has said today that the eastward enlargement of the European Union is a
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