Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle could move towards the continent from Saturday afternoon, after passing through the Azores archipelago. According to a statement from meteorological institute IPMA, based on the forecast provided
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Good news for once for aircraft passengers – a three-month ‘strike’ called by airport handlers has been cancelled (indignantly) because the minimum services decreed would have obliged them to perform
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MPs return to parliament today, following the summer break, straight into controversy. Immigrants from all over the country are also making for Lisbon this morning, answering the call put out
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Entry/ Exit Sytem (EES) starts being applied from October 12 The new European external border control system for non-EU citizens will come into operation on October 12 in Portugal and
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Formula 1’s chief executive, Stefano Domenicali, has confirmed that Portugal is among several countries interested in hosting a Grand Prix, but warned that the packed race calendar leaves little room
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The Public Prosecutor’s Office has announced that it has been possible to identify eight of the 16 fatalities in yesterday’s disaster involving Lisbon’s iconic Glória funicular. Five of the dead
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‘Fossil fuels must end’ – Portugal’s secretary of state at COP
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This year’s lacklustre climate summit enters final strait With this year’s COP reinforcing fears that these annual climate summits have become little more than rather surreal talking shops, Portugal’s secretary of State for energy and climate has nailed Portugal’s fossil fuel commitments to the mast. Says Lusa, recognising the difficulty in reaching a consensus on […]
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COP28: outgoing PM urges conversion of debt into climate finance
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Strategy “benefits all humanity”, says Costa Portugal’s outgoing prime minister has argued today at COP28 that agreements to convert millions of euros of debt into climate finance benefit “all of humanity” and are a necessary step in the fight against climate change. On the first day of the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, António […]
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Checkmate: Portugal’s political crisis plays perfectly into PM’s hands
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PM travels to Brussels as political backbiting hogs headlines As the Resident went to press, prime minister António Costa was on his way to a strategic dinner debate on the EU’s political priorities for the future. Notwithstanding oblique recent comments that he could not imagine “another public role” – an expression he then changed to […]
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Hundreds of unfilled vacancies for medical internships in Portugal’s State health service “a red card” for government
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Ministry of health accused of rank incompetence Portugal’s Order of Physicians (Ordem dos Médicos) has cited the hundreds of unfilled vacancies in medical internships with Portugal’s SNS State health service medical as “a red card” to ministry of health, which it accuses of “incompetence and inoperativeness. “These are very worrying figures that effectively reflect a […]
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