Government backpedals on key migration policies
On Thursday, the Finance Minister told the FT that Portugal will reintroduce tax breaks for skilled foreigners. However, it turns out...
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13 de jun.1 min de leitura
Portugal 7th most peaceful country in the world
Portugal was named the seventh most peaceful country in the world in the Global Peace Index 2024, having dropped one position compared to...
13 de jun.2 min de leitura
Poverty drops to pre-pandemic level
In 2023, Portugal had a risk of poverty and social exclusion rate of 20.1%, the same as in 2022 and down from 22.4% in 2021, occupying...
6 de jun.3 min de leitura
Top banker and former Minister sentenced to jail
Ricardo Espírito Santo Salgado, who between 1991 and 2014 was the chief executive of Banco Espírito Santo (BES), Portugal most important...
6 de jun.5 min de leitura
Government toughens migration rules
On Monday, the Government presented its highly-anticipated migration reshuffle, which, among other measures, put an end to the...
30 de mai.3 min de leitura
Government presents new emergency plan for health sector
On Wednesday, the Government presented the new emergency plan for the health sector, which the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, promised...
30 de mai.1 min de leitura
Wildfire rips through Arouca
The fire that broke out at 4.30pm on Tuesday in the municipality of Arouca, in the district of Aveiro, and which forced the evacuation of...
23 de mai.3 min de leitura
Government reaches agreement on teachers' "frozen" service
After an almost 20 year struggle, the Government reached an agreement with seven unions on Tuesday regarding the recovery of teachers'...
23 de mai.3 min de leitura
Over 2,100 inappropriately hospitalised
As of 20 March, 2,164 people were inappropriately hospitalized, corresponding to more than 378,000 days. Waiting for a place in long-term...
16 de mai.2 min de leitura
Conflicting reports about Nepalese boy attack
On Tuesday, Rádio Renascença reported that a nine-year-old boy of Nepalese nationality had been attacked by other classmates at a school...
15 de mai.2 min de leitura
Portugal's navy needs 10 thousand soldiers
In an extensive interview with Radio TSF and Diário de Notícias, the Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Henrique Gouveia e Melo, who...
8 de mai.2 min de leitura
Socialite arrested for domestic violence against American heiress
Socialite and TV-personality José Castelo Branco was arrested on Tuesday for suspicions of domestic violence against his wife, American...
8 de mai.1 min de leitura
PJ arrests professor suspected of 2,000 child abuse crimes
A 50-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday by the Judiciary Police (PJ) for committing at least two thousand crimes of child sexual abuse...
2 de mai.2 min de leitura
Couple arrested in Bragança for enslaving man for 17 years
Four people have been arrested on suspicion of holding a man in slavery-like conditions for 17 years. The case, in Portugal’s northern...
2 de mai.3 min de leitura
398 Portuguese beaches win Blue Flag in 2024
This year, Portugal will have 398 beaches with the Blue Flag hoisted. There are also 19 marinas and 23 ecotourism vessels with the...
25 de abr.3 min de leitura
NHS CEO resigns
The executive director of the National Health Service (SNS), Fernando Araújo, has resigned, together with his team, claiming that he does...
25 de abr.1 min de leitura
High school bans "excessive cleavage" and "short" shorts
The Pedro Nunes Secondary School in Lisbon has threatened to prevent students from taking their national exams if they are not dressed...
18 de abr.1 min de leitura
Whatsapp scam warning
The Portuguese authorities have alerted users for rising number of reported fraudulent WhatsApp messages. The scam begins with...
18 de abr.1 min de leitura
71% of the Portuguese don't know the exact date of the European elections
The European Parliament's last Eurobarometer before the elections scheduled for June reveals that, while it remains below the European...
11 de abr.2 min de leitura
European Court of Human Rights throws out Portuguese climate case
This week, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) dismissed a case brought by six Portuguese teenagers from areas in Portugal ravaged...
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