NATO convenes emergency meeting to assess situation The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will hold an "emergency" meeting this morning at the level of ambassadors of member countries to assess the invasion of Ukraine. The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, said that Portugal is attentive and will act The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa,...
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Covid-19: Portugal no longer requires a negative test at the borders
The Portuguese government announced Thursday that passengers wishing to enter its territory will no longer be required to present negative covid-19 tests at airports if they have already had the European Union's covid-19 digital certificate or "other proof of vaccination that has been recognized." The end of the negative test requirement, which...
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Portuguese working in Angola invoice more than Angolans in Portugal
The Bank of Portugal announced that Portuguese emigrants working in Angola sent 22.9 million euros to Portugal and Angolans in Portugal sent only the derisory 800,000 euros, in November last year. According to the bank, comparing these November 2021 numbers with those of the same month of the year...
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Portugal's Public Debt is 130.5% of GDP. The 3rd largest in the EU
Portugal's public debt ratio was 130.5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the third quarter of last year, the third highest in the European Union (EU) and above that of the Euro-Zone (97.7%) and the 27 as a whole (90.1%). Eurostat, the EU's statistical office, published the data this Friday...
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Portugal wants to treat covid-19 as a common flu
Covid-19 should start to be seen as a common flu in Portugal, as is already happening in Spain, some experts suggest. The ways of contraction of the virus and its behavior in the human organism are already known worldwide and this is possible to predict, after two years in...
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Omicron variant already accounts for 93.2% infections in Portugal
The Ómicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is already responsible for 93.2% of infections in Portugal, as a result of a "rapid growth" in December. According to the estimate made this Tuesday by INSA, by January 03, Ómicron had already reached a frequency of 89.6% of the cases of infections recorded in that country. "Since December 06, it has been...
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Domestic poultry farmers turn to fertile eggs from Europe to meet demand
The national poultry industry is forced to import fertile eggs from countries like Portugal, Spain and Turkey, when they used to acquire them in neighboring South Africa, which, in the meantime, reduced its production because of the covid-19 pandemic. According to national aviculturists, this change has as immediate consequences, the increase in price of the chicks and their late development,...
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Mobility among CPLP States: After all, only three countries have ratified the Agreement
After being reported in several media about the signing of the Mobility Agreement between the CPLP member countries, the executive secretariat of the CPLP, Zacarias da Costa, clarified that the agreement only applies to the three member states that have ratified it, namely Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe...
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Portugal joins the others and ratifies the CPLP Mobility Agreement
The agreement is extremely important at the economic level and for the free circulation of goods and services between the Portuguese-speaking Countries, CPLP. "Our borders are well established. Now what really matters is to open the doors that allow our people to do what they naturally do, which is to be able to circulate and...
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Portugal resumes commercial flights with Mozambique - Portuguese Minister
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, Augusto Santos Silva, assured, this Friday, the country will suspend restrictions and commercial air links with Mozambique will resume soon, "soon after the completion of repatriation flights". In an interview with RTP, the official said that although the pandemic situation has forced...