Costa to visit Portuguese military stationed in Lithuania
PM António Costa will be in Lithuania early next week ahead of the long-announced NATO summit, scheduled to start in the country’s capital, Vilnius, on Tuesday. The idea is that
Government to hold “informal” Cabinet meeting on Saturday
The government will be meeting informally tomorrow, for an “informal, extra” meeting of the Cabinet (Council of Ministers) to prepare for the upcoming State of the Nation debate in parliament
PM awaits final report on TAP to assess political fallout
Parliamentary inquiry has now ended; final conclusions being prepared Portugal’s prime minister, António Costa, is awaiting the final conclusions of the report of the TAP commission of inquiry to know
Former minister returns to parliament after six-month break
Pedro Nuno Santos resigned in turbulence of TAP golden handshake debacle Pedro Nuno Santos, long seen as ‘pretender’ to the prime minister’s role as leader of the Socialist Party, has
Portugal won’t be bullied into cutting back on social support measures
Minister gives statement following ECB president’s remarks on inflation Portugal’s top cabinet minister trod a fine line in diplomacy today, saying the government means to following a line of balance
President and PM throw weight behind criticism of ECB’s inflation-beating policy
ECB has not sufficiently understood nature of inflation, says António Costa Prime minister António Costa, and President Marcelo, have thrown their weight behind – or certainly their voices to –
Portugal’s PSD leader calls for ‘a gamble on higher wages’
Day after ECB boss claims they will lead to ‘more persistent inflation’ The leader of Portugal’s largest opposition party, PSD, said today that Portugal has to “risk paying better wages”,
Marcelo wants to see “final contours” of government’s ‘young offenders amnesty’
Amnesty designed to commemorate Pope’s visit in August President Marcelo has said he will only rubber stamp the government’s ‘draft law’ to give young offenders time off jail sentences –
If PM says he is not interested in an EU job, it is likely he is – Liberals
The leader of Portugal’s Liberal Initiative Party (IL) said today that if the prime minister ensures he is not interested in a plum European job, “it is likely” that he
‘Closer government’ initiative moves to Évora
With customary protests, today led by country’s beekeepers The ‘closer government’ initiative has been marketed by the PS Socialist absolute majority as a way of showing how Portugal’s leaders are