1+ hour, 16+ min ago  (450+ words) As Expresso explains, "although it continues to respect the decisions of environmental licensing bodies, the government admits to considering the possibility of considering a particular project as having superior national interest, in which case the decisions of environmental licensing bodies,…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (340+ words) Yesterday's news about widespread "searches' into a suspected web of cronyism and favours involving various PS Socialist municipal entities came just at the time when the PS party nationally is "bouncing back' " bumping the popularity of Lu's Montenegro's AD government…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (479+ words) Portugal's minority AD government is once again under fire, following yet another speech by the prime minister in which he insists the executive will remain in place until 2029. PS Socialists have particularly focused on news that the government has already…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (170+ words) The two doctors kidnapped by Israeli military " along with hundreds of others " from a humanitarian flotilla sailing in international waters on Monday, have finally been released, and are on their way home. Beatriz Bartilotti and Gon'alo Dias should be arriving…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (147+ words) More than 500 flights are at risk due to the general strike, scheduled for June 3. Two weeks away from the midweek strike " called in protest to the government's proposals for labour reform " the potential consequences are coming clear: various unions have…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (333+ words) News today that the repatriation flight from Tenerife to Canada of passengers from the Hantavirus-stricken cruise-ship was carrying at least one person positive for the potentially deadly virus will have increased the anxiety already voiced by the Portuguese crew that…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (501+ words) In conversation with Fox News " onboard Air Force One on the recent United States" visit to China, Secretary of State Marco Rubio dropped a clanger that has left the Portuguese government scrambling to effect damage limitation. After all the assertions…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (393+ words) Construction of a solar farm at the Neves-Corvo mine (Beja district) is able to resume after the local Administrative and Tax Court (TAFB) rejected a lawsuit against the project. A representative for Boliden Somincor, the mine's concessionaire in the Alentejo…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (350+ words) With so many stories concentrating on the Hantavirus outbreak, a Portuguese flight crew has now appeared among them, complaining that it was involved in a repatriation flight " and does not feel it was given sufficient information, or even protected properly....

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (605+ words) Tinkering around the edges won't cut the mustard when it comes to solving Portugal's housing crisis " it needs a complete structural overhaul. This is according to the real estate consultant CBRE, which states that simply increasing supply won't be enough....