Refugees

Former UN high commissioner for refugees – and currently Portugal’s official nominee to replace Ban-ki-Moon when he steps down from the UN’s top job last this year – António Guterres

And those already here have told national radio Antena 1 that they wish they hadn’t come. This appears to be the true picture of a country that only weeks ago

What was billed as the arrival of 22 refugees in Lisbon over the weekend ended up being only 17 as a family-of-five changed their minds “at the last minute” after

“It is lamentable”, says the country’s refugee platform, but the truth is that Portugal really doesn’t know when it will start receiving the 4500 refugees envisaged for intake over the

Portugal’s first refugees as part of the new intake as agreed with Brussels will start arriving next week, minister for regional development Poiares Maduro has revealed. Stressing that now is

After a huge amount of to-ing and fro-ing over numbers, it looks like Portugal will be receiving “around €70 million” in European funds to take in “4,500 to 5000” refugees

As 150 protestors marched outside parliament on Sunday, saying “no to refugees” in Portugal, three trucks loaded with 66 tons of supplies left the country bound for Croatia and Slovenia.

In the next two years, Portugal is willing to offer shelter to 1,500 of the refugees flooding into Europe from the Mediterranean Sea. A source has told Diário de Notícias