Fundão creates guide for integrating refugees
The municipality of Fundão – which currently has residents of 77 nationalities, and began welcoming refugees in 2016 – has presented its ‘Guide for the Integration and Reception of Refugees’
Portugal agrees to receive more refugees
Portugal has assumed eight pledges during the Global Refugee Forum, among them an increase in the ‘reinstallation quota’ (meaning an increase to refugee numbers welcomed to this country), and in
More than 2,000 unaccompanied child refugees enter Portuguese institutions in 2022
More than 2,000 unaccompanied child refugees/ asylum seekers entered Portuguese institutions last year – the majority of them from overcrowded refugee camps in Greece. The children by an large are
Portugal grants refugee status to 71% of applicants; highest rate in EU
Country stands for giving refugee status to people “with low rates of recognition of the need” for it Seven out of ten applications for refugee status received a positive response
PM visits largest refugee registration centre in Poland
Explains how Portugal can help On his way to Ukraine, Portugal’s PM António Costa was in Warsaw earlier today, for talks with Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki and a visit to
€50 million for refugees “not enough”, says platform
Call for “urgent access to EU funds” The €50 million included in Portugal’s 2022 State Budget for the reception of Ukrainian refugees is simply not enough, says André Costa Jorge,
Russians ‘frighten’ Ukrainian refugees in Portugal
Expresso reports on unsettling experiences of refugees in Setúbal Following the worrying report of six NGOs directly connected to Moscow pretending to be Ukrainians and supporting refugees in Portugal, Expresso
Fifth humanitarian flight brings more Ukrainians to Portugal
Portugal “one of best examples” in opening hearts to Ukrainian refugees Another 263 Ukrainian refugees are due to arrive in Portugal on Thursday in the latest humanitarian flight organised by
Tourism “good area for Ukrainian refugees to work in”
Ukrainians are “qualified” and “know what to do” The Ukrainian consul in Porto said on Wednesday that tourism is “a good area” for Ukrainian refugees to work in Portugal because
Ukrainian refugee doctors to be accepted into SNS
“Even if they don’t speak Portuguese”, guarantees Ordem dos Médicos Ukrainian doctors are to be accepted for work into the Portuguese national health system (SNS). The news could benefit not