Prime minister Luís Montenegro has ‘guaranteed’ today that he will ‘clarify parties’ doubts’ on the single social benefit (PSU) which the government appears to be trying to bring in at

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A little like the time, over 10 years ago, when PS Socialist leader António Costa asked 12 economists to come up with a blueprint for a new Socialist government, current

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Portugal’s prime minister, Luís Montenegro, is still fighting tooth and nail to block public access to salient details of his family business, Spinumviva. EpT, (the country’s transparency entity), decided last

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PSP police arrested six people outside parliament in Lisbon yesterday, after the ‘peaceful’ protest organised by striking union members against the government’s labour package appears to have been infiltrated by

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Portugal’s prime minister, Luís Montenegro, expressed his conviction today that the “overwhelming majority of working Portuguese people” will go to work tomorrow – the day of the general strike. Upon

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Portugal’s CHEGA party has held a press conference today to say the party will propose in parliament that any worker should be able to retire after 40 years of contributions

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Minister of foreign affairs, Paulo Rangel, has expressed confidence regarding Portugal’s chances of returning to the UN Security Council – saying the country’s greatest asset in this regard is its

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