Portugal

HOUSE PRICES in Portugal have plummeted by a staggering 15-20 per cent this year as fears grow that the country is facing a mini recession. However, part of the problem

By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com THE PRESIDENT of Portugal’s third largest commercial bank, Banco Português de Investimento (BPI), has said that companies with profits over 100 million euros should pay super

By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com PORTUGAL’S LARGEST consumer organisation is confident that a deal will be brokered that will prevent electricity consumers footing EDP’s 12 million euro shortfall.   DECO, which sits

FORMER BENFICA manager João Vale e Azevedo presented himself at Westminster court  in London on Tuesday following the issuing of arrest warrants by the Portuguese authorities (See The Resident edition,

By: EDUARDO OLIVEIRA COSTA Eduardo Oliveira Costa is a journalist and publisher of several newspapers across Portugal. He is on the board of several organisations, is president of a football

AROUND TWO thousand pregnant women took part in the second Barrigas de Amor, tummies of love, event in Parque dos Poetas, Oeiras, on Sunday, to raise awareness of the birth-rate

THE INTERNATIONAL financial crisis would be far worse for Portugal if the government had not imposed strict budgetary measures, said Prime Minister José Sócrates. Speaking on RTP 1’s Grande Entrevista,

CARJACKING IN Portugal has increased by 55 per cent this year, compared to last year, but there was a drop in violent car theft in June. Statistics from the Gabinete

By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com GUESTS AT this year’s 4th of July American Independence Day celebrations party fastened their seatbelts for a bumpy night at the Hotel Miragem in Cascais last

PORTUGAL’S NATIONAL carrier TAP looks set to be dogged by continuing strikes for the rest of June and July if deals over working hours and pay cannot be brokered with