PM to unveil medium-term cuts on Friday night
Portugal’s prime minister, Pedro Passo Coelho, is to unveil details of planned structural reforms to slash state spending at 8pm on Friday, a government spokesman told news agency Lusa on Thursday. The...
View ArticleCoalition: CDS-PP leader voices disagreement with PM
Leader of the coalition's junior partner CDS-PP and Minister of State and Foreign Affairs Paulo Portas (Photograph: Miguel A. Lopes/LUSA) The leader of the conservative CDS-PP party made a televised...
View ArticleForeign Affairs: Turkish president begins official visit
Turkish President Abdullah Gul (R) shakes hands with Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho (L) (Photograph: Tiago Petinga/LUSA) Dozens of businesspeople, three ministers and eight MPs from the...
View ArticleGovernment: Parliament to receive amended budget today
Portugal’s amended budget was approved Thursday at the Council of Ministers meeting, and includes measures to replace those recently rejected by the Constitutional Court. Under the new budget, civil...
View ArticleVenezuela president: Visit ends with wide-reaching agreement
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (L) and Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho (R) shake hands after the meeting of the 8th Bilateral Monitoring Joint Committee (Photograph: Andre...
View ArticleGovernment: Gaspar resigns, Maria Luís Albuquerque is the new minister of...
Treasury Secretary of State, Maria Luís Albuquerque, who was announced this afternoon as the new Portuguese Minister of Finance. (Photograph: João Relvas/Lusa The Portuguese Minister of Finance Vítor...
View ArticleGovernment: PM in Berlin conference despite political crisis
Portuguese Prime Minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, delivers a political declaration to the country (Photograph: Manuel de Almeida/LUSA) The Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho flew to Berlin on...
View Article“Two surreal political days”, writes PDV editor Vítor Matos
Portugal is living the surreal nightmare of an irresponsibility from its main political leaders impossible to imagine. It’s been 48 hours of madness. On Monday, the minister of Finance, Vítor Gaspar...
View ArticlePolitical crisis: President calls in major parties after ‘national salvation’...
Portugal’s president, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, held separate meetings with the leaders of the opposition Socialist Party and of the CDS-PP, the junior partner in the governing coalition, and with the prime...
View ArticlePS: Seguro remains tight-lipped to not upset negotiations
António José Seguro said on Friday that he would not be commenting on statements made by the Prime Minister, alleging that he wants to reach a good agreement and not muddy the negotiating process with...
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