Minister of the presidency, António Leitão Amaro, has stressed Portugal wants to be a voice of reason at the Ibero-American Forum on Migration and Development, opening tomorrow in Huelva, Spain,

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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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Fuel prices at the pumps are showing signs of rising, yet again, from Monday. According to SIC Notícias, the worst hit will be diesel, expected to increase by as much

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A new satellite map, designed to predict wildfires and integrated into a technology tool for rural property management, allows users to identify the areas most at risk of fire this

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On a day when the European Commission has given with one hand, it has taken with another – by launching proceedings against Portugal for failing to guarantee legal aid to suspects

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Round three of the intense debate, opened by APA environmental agency, over the rights (or otherwise) to put up a sunshade has now verged into new territory. With APA insisting

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Brussels has finally seen the light. After claiming that months of ‘chaos’ at airport border controls were ‘unrelated’ to its new Entry/ Exit system (EES), the European Commission has announced

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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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