Portuguese wine exports grow 2.1%
Lusa - Portugal - 03/06/2020
Portuguese wine exports increased 2.1% in the first quarter of this year, to more than 185 million euros, compared to the same period last year, revealed today the Interprofessional Association for the Promotion of Wines of Portugal (ViniPortugal).
In the first three…
António Mexia refuses to answer judge in the EDP case
Dinheiro Vivo - Portugal - 02/06/2020
Executive chairman was asked about EDP’s excessive rents process.
EDP’s president, António Mexia, today refused, as an accused and in the investigation phase, to answer to judge Carlos Alexandre, alleging that a request for removal of that magistrate is…
Portugal's rich beach to do free tests to the entire population
Folha de S. Paulo - Brazil - 02/06/2020
With part of the economy dependent on tourism, Cascais starts to measure before the summer season.
Famous for its beaches and the many wealthy residents, the city of Cascais (about 35 km from Lisbon) will make serological tests for the new coronavirus available for free…
Propeller hats to distance children sparks controversy
Jornal de Notícias - Portugal - 02/06/2020
The hats offered by the municipality of Arcos de Valdevez this Monday, on Children’s Day, to children in pre-school education in the municipality are generating controversy. They have a 1.20 meter propeller that “works as a friendly removal suggestion”, as…
New Portuguese ambassador introduces himself to João Lourenço
Lusa - Angola - 02/06/2020
The new ambassador of Portugal in Luanda admitted that the impact of the covid-19 pandemic is “worrying” from a business point of view, but underlined that the two countries share “a willingness to work together in the present and in the…
Sobrinho Simões: “Portugal's biggest problem is poverty”
Jornal de Notícias - Portugal - 02/06/2020
Manuel Sobrinho Simões turns 73 in September, always misses his foot to talk about himself in the third person and as if he were 100 years old – but this “guy” who sleeps six hours a night after all runs as if he were twenty. The reason? “O cagaço (the fear)”…
195 more infected and 12 deaths in Portugal
Diário de Notícias - Portugal - 02/06/2020
Lisbon and the Tagus Valley have 81% of new infections. A further 12 fatalities and 317 healed were recorded, according to the bulletin from the Directorate-General for Health.
In Portugal, in the last 24 hours, 12 more people died and 195 more cases of covid-19 were…
Costa's adviser wants to transform Portugal's railway and ports
TSF - Portugal - 02/06/2020
The man chosen by the prime minister to define the country’s recovery plan after the pandemic wants to connect Portugal to the world through continental and maritime means.
In an interview with TSF, the new ‘paraminister’, António Costa e Silva, stated that…
FC Porto and Benfica fighting for title in scenario never experienced before
Lusa - Portugal - 02/06/2020
First Division of Portuguese Football League returns on Wednesday, after stopped for almost three months due to the covid-19, with attention turned to the fight for the title, with FC Porto and Benfica as the only protagonists.
Two teams separated by a point and fighting…
Portuguese living in Europe go through difficulties
Jornal de Notícias - Portugal - 01/06/2020
The presence of Portuguese in the queues to receive food aid baskets in Switzerland is just one of the signs of how the crisis caused by the covid-19 is affecting emigrants, in a dimension that is now beginning to be evaluated.
“They are not the majority, but I saw…
