Government willing to review state workers’ salaries – PM
Prime minister António Costa has shown willingness to review public sector workers’ salaries, writes Lusa this afternoon. Responding to a question from PCP communists during a debate on government policy,
PSD leader to tour Portuguese communities in Europe
Luís Montenegro, leader of Portugal’s main opposition PSD social democrat party, starts a new round of his “Feel Portugal” initiative this month, leaving the country for the first time to
Interior ministry gets €34 million to renew police service vehicles
The ministry of interior administration has been given the green-light (after years in which the parlous state of GNR and PSP vehicles has been highlighted through the media) to spend
President lays into ‘tired’ government; complains of year “practically lost”
Leader writers focus on “failing State” In a week when doctors, nurses, teachers, court staff, railway workers, even farmers are either on strike, or protesting (or doing both at the
‘Closer Government’ brings political decision-makers to Algarve
Prime Minister António Costa and a full entourage of ministers and secretaries of state visited the Algarve on March 1 and 2 as part of a new government programme entitled
Former PSD leader delivers withering assessment of country’s prospects
Former PSD leader Maria Ferreira Leite has given a withering assessment of Portugal’s prospects, unless things change, radically and swiftly. Talking today at an event for International Women’s Day she
Political crisis in Azores
The Azores regional coalition government has been thrown into crisis today with two parties announcing that they were pulling out. First came IL (Iniciativa Liberal) whose MP Nuno Barata highlighted
PSD presents alternative to government’s “vague and generic” housing policy
Portugal’s centre-right PSD party (rising in popularity as PS Socialists fall) today presented its view of how to ‘fix’ the housing crisis. The package involves giving people “ample subsidies” towards
“All talk, no action”: PSD Algarve slams governmental visit
Opposition party believes visit will have “little or no practical results” The government’s two-day tour of the Algarve has sparked strong criticism from PSD Algarve, which has accused the initiative
CHEGA closes in on latest corruption speculation
Finance minister’s future at issue Considerable speculation over business dealings at the department of urbanism at Lisbon City Council during the mandate of Fernando Medina (currently Portugal’s minister of finance)