Firefighters tire of ‘waiting’ for audit results over safety of 81 vehicles
The League of Portuguese Firefighters is tired of waiting to hear the results of the various ‘audits’ imposed on 81 vehicles purchased in the same lot as the one involved
Two pilots per week are quitting Portuguese Air Force
The Portuguese Air Force is hemorrhaging pilots to the private sector (where they can earn three times as much as they take home in the armed forces). At a point
Searches continue for Italian swept into sea in Porto
Searches have resumed for a second day following the disappearance of an Italian man while out walking in Foz do Douro, with friends, on Saturday afternoon. According to the friends,
Construction industry facing ‘unprecedented challenges’, warns association
Needs more private investment, more workers, more modernisation Portugal’s construction industry is facing “unprecedented challenges” while the boom to the country in terms of European funding under the PRR (Plan
Final farewell to FC Porto legend Pinto da Costa
Controversial president led FC Porto for 42 years, winning 69 major trophies in men’s senior football Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, the legendary former president of FC Porto who led
Portugal absent from emergency defence summit of European leaders in Paris today
Summit takes place as US starts ‘peace talks’ with Russia The Portuguese government will be absent from today’s hastily convened summit of European leaders, promoted by French president Emmanuel Macron,
CHEGA leader gives PM 24-hours to explain “absolute suspicion of corruption”
Ventura latches on to news of PM’s family real estate business CHEGA leader André Ventura has continued the practice of Portugal’s MPs focused on just about anything but what is
Parish councils set to win “disaggregation”
PSD announces it too will confirm diploma vetoed by President Marcelo President Marcelo’s veto last week of the diploma restoring the parish council map to the way it was before
Former uranium miners join fight against open-pit lithium mine in Boticas
“We know what open-pit mining is: landscape will be destroyed” A group of former miners who worked the uranium mines of Urgeiriça have joined the ‘people’s fight’ against lithium mining
National uproar over president’s ‘parish council disaggregation veto’
The decision by President Marcelo to ‘veto’ the decree restoring parish councils ‘merged’ during the troika years has truly gone down like a lead balloon. So much kick-back has come










