Growth of extreme right-wing “a threat for Portugal”
Discrimination || Portugal has “the ingredients” for a surge of the extreme right-wing. Who says this is the outgoing High Commissioner for Migrations, Maria Rosário Farmhouse, who told Lusa news
Back in the red… new statistics on Portugal’s battered economy
Alarm bells are ringing once again over the (real) state of Portuguese economy. Reporting today, business news website Negócios quotes data from INE, the statistics institute, which it says “registers
armed gang hold up Lidl store in Portugal
Staff and customers at Lidl’s outlet in Fermentões, Guimarães, cowered in panic on Monday morning when three armed men burst in, demanding money from the tills. The men, all brandishing
Despite UK veto, Juncker all set to be EC’s new president
As the UK prime minister David Cameron gets endlessly repeated airtime to say cognac-swilling Jean-Claude Junker is “not the man for the job”, it looks increasingly likely that the former
Germany’s finance minister dubs Portugal a “success story” as President Cavaco calls crisis meeting
President of Portugal Cavaco Silva has called a Council of State ‘crisis meeting’ for Thursday next week after a debate on the ‘state of the nation’ in Parliament saw renewed
“Father takes son to his death and wins €10,000”
Police unions are in shock this morning after the decision of an appeal court over a young officer who accidentally killed a child while chasing a convicted criminal. Father-of-one Hugo
Vila Vita founder Reinfried Pohl dies at 86
Reinfried Pohl, the founder of the Algarve’s luxury Vila Vita resort, has died at the age of 86. Pohl was born in 1928 in Zwickau (now belonging to Germany but
British Passport extensions to help delays caused by high demand
A statement from the British Embassy in Lisbon has revealed that the Passport Office is dealing with “the highest demand for passports in 12 years” and has issued over three
Portugal's doctors strike as state health service reels
Doctors claim the state-funded health service needs at least 600 extra professionals “as a matter of urgency”. In the Algarve, the lack of doctors has reached crunch-point, while the country’s
Health trials in Portugal cause 265 deaths
Health trials conducted in Portugal caused a total of 265 adverse effects in participants over a five-year period with some ending in death, the national medication authority has revealed –