Victor Angelo

The Portuguese voted yesterday to elect a new Head of State. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, a law professor and a TV personality – for many year...

The Portuguese Socialist Party has a new leader: António Costa, the current mayor of Lisbon. On Sunday he won the party´s nomination by an...

Ricardo Salgado, the top man at the Portuguese bank Banco Espírito Santo (BES) had been called by his countrymen the “owner of everything”...

Former Portuguese President Mario Soares is now an old man. But he is still very much involved in his country´s politics. And at present h...

Today we had municipal elections in Portugal. It is, at this time, a bit early to get to conclusions. But it is obvious that many will rea...

Portugal goes to bed tonight with a clear mind: the President has decided that the current Prime Minister and his coalition government wil...

The key Portuguese parties have been requested by the President to look for a broad political accord in order to guarantee enough stabilit...

Yesterday, the Portuguese Finance Minister left the government. That was no big surprise, in the end, as many had expected that decision f...

The Portuguese Finance Minister, Vítor Gaspar, resigned this afternoon. He had lost the public opinion battle long ago, as he was seen by ...

An opinion poll released this morning shows that 22% of the Portuguese voters would vote for the Communists and the leftist party called B...

The Portuguese Constitutional Court has reviewed the 2013 national budget law and declared four revenue generating measures invalid becau...

Large crowds marched today in the key cities and towns of Portugal against the austerity measures the government is implementing. The key...

The IMF has just published a review of Portugal’s public expenditures. The report came as a bomb at a time when the public debate about 2...

Barroso delivered a very interesting speech yesterday in Lisbon. The link to the Portuguese language version of it is the folloowing: htt...