UK tops the charts of Portuguese airport arrivals
Portuguese airport arrivals from UK increased 1.5% year-on-year between January and November 2024 The number of passengers from the United Kingdom travelling to Portugal is growing, with new data revealing
Portugal’s new land law under fire
Government’s plan to release rural land for affordable housing looks like coming unstuck On Friday, parliament will consider the government’s decree to revise the land law, following an outcry
Government “maintains position of not recognising Palestine”
AD puts further distance between Portugal’s right and left Portugal’s relatively new AD social democrat government says it “maintains its position in not recognising the state of Palestine”. This is
President names new head of SNS executive directorate… but adds to questions building
President Marcelo has today named the 4th man to be given the responsibility of running the SNS (state health) executive direction – a second tier devised to oversee the running
Heightened alert as envelopes containing white powder sent to ‘sovereign bodies’
A number of entities of the state were put on high alert yesterday when envelopes (sent by Correio Verde/ ‘green delivery’ from Lisbon) started arriving, containing a ‘suspicious white powder’
Mario Draghi to take part in Council of State
Former president of the European Central Bank, and more recently, former prime minister of Italy, Mário Draghi, has been invited for a second time to a ‘Council of State’ convened
German Erasmus student rescued from drowning on Saturday dies in hospital
Circumstances of drowning under investigation The 23-year-old German student rescued from drowning during a surf lesson on the Costa Caparica on Saturday has died in hospital. The young woman’s prognosis
CHEGA delighted by US president’s executive order establishing “only two sexes”
Europe’s right “has been fighting this battle for a long time” Portugal’s right wing party leader, André Ventura, has welcomed the arrival of Donald Trump into the United States presidency,
Scandal surrounding former INEM chief ‘gets worse’
Gandra d’Almeida accused of ‘illegally accumulated functions’ in Matosinhos/ Gaia/ Abrantes The deeply embarrassing ‘scandal’ that led to the resignation on Friday of former INEM director António Gandra d’Almeida appears
German student in critical condition after near-drowning during surf lesson
Instructors “did not realise” she was drowning Maritime police are delivering their report to public prosecutors today about the near-drowning of a young German on Costa da Caparica during a