4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (639+ words) Fresh from the defeat of its motion of censure against the government, CHEGA has opened two new fronts: proposing that Portuguese and European Union children receive priority in oversubscribed schools, and accusing justice minister Rita Alarcão Júdice of lying to…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (769+ words) There was something wonderfully authentic about that simple statement. A few years earlier, I had trained with the Virtues Project, which profoundly influenced the way I thought about qualities such as kindness, courage, honesty and integrity. Rather than simply saying…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (425+ words) Two Portuguese higher education institutions and a Ukrainian university announced today that they will run a series of joint courses for the community in Portugal at an institute that includes research on drones. “The Institute for Democracy has been designed…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (397+ words) Yesterday’s emphatic stand by Minister for Interior Administration Luís Neves appears not to have calmed the waters. From left to right, political parties are still railing that Neves has no place in government. Socialist leader José Luís Carneiro has dubbed…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (431+ words) The leader of right-wing populist party CHEGA has given the government until Tuesday to “resolve the situation of the Minister of Internal Affairs” – threatening a motion of no confidence if nothing changes. Considering that media allegations and reports concerning the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (627+ words) The Constitutional Court has ruled that there is no “unconstitutionality” in the Foreigners and Asylum Law, commonly known as the Return Law, after the President of the Republic requested a preventive review of the legislation earlier this month. The draft…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (611+ words) Against a backdrop of rising crime figures for inner city areas of Lisbon and Porto, PSP chief Luís Carrilho has gone on air to confirm he cannot guarantee the 200 extra police officers pledged by the government three months ago. But…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (743+ words) Questions are being raised over how long the ageing Fagilde dam can safely remain in operation after the government acknowledged that its spillway cannot handle the flood conditions required under current regulations. The dam, built on the River Dão in…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (201+ words) With two days of strike action already tabled for next month, paramedics warn that they are ready to lodge a criminal complaint against INEM president Luís Cabral for comments he has made about their union having ‘hidden party-political motives’. The…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (204+ words) Leader of right-wing CHEGA, André Ventura, insists today that the party will not withdraw its draft bill on gender identity, in spite of the rather unusual ‘appeal’ sent by the United Nations to the parliamentary speaker. Ventura, on the other…...