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Portugal's Finance Minister Joaquim Miranda Sarmento was admitted to Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon on Tuesday, where he is currently undergoing medical tests. Official hospital sources confirmed the admission to the Lusa news agency but declined to...
André Ventura confirmed on Wednesday that he will seek re-election as leader of Chega at the party's next convention, tentatively scheduled for 8 to 10 May. Speaking at a press conference at party headquarters, Ventura framed the bid as a...
Finance Minister Joaquim Miranda Sarmento was admitted to Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon on Wednesday afternoon, where he is undergoing medical tests, according to an official hospital source speaking to the Lusa news agency. The hospitalisation...
Luís Neves, the former head of Portugal's Polícia Judiciária, was sworn in as Minister of Internal Administration on Monday at the Palácio de Belém, replacing Maria Lúcia Amaral in a ministry that has been under sustained political and operational...
Prime Minister Luis Montenegro heads to the National Palace of Queluz this Tuesday afternoon for what marks the first formal meeting between the head of government and President-elect Antonio Jose Seguro since the latter's decisive victory in the...
Portugal's government approved its ambitious new recovery programme last Friday -- the PTRR, or Portugal Transformacao, Recuperacao e Resiliencia -- but the plan arrived without a price tag, without confirmed funding sources, and with an open...
The United States ambassador to Portugal, John Arrigo, has publicly urged Lisbon to replace its ageing fleet of F-16 fighter jets with Lockheed Martin's fifth-generation F-35 stealth aircraft, in a move that underscores Washington's growing pressure...
