Portugal

Some 700 divers gathered in Sesimbra this weekend in a new initiative to 'break the world record' for cleaning the oceans

The 'airport security tax' has been increased to €3,54 per person

The commission charged with charting a way out of Portugal's midwifery crisis will propose closing more maternity units, given the lack of obstetricians and gynaecologists in the state health system

The country's gambling regulator is accepting bids for two gaming concessions that will expire at the end of this year in an international tender

The government has 'identified the need to study in greater detail and depth the causes of excess deaths' from 2020, as deaths classified 'from other causes' haven't been so high in 100 years

In measures to combat drought in the Algarve, 16 mayors have announced the closure of swimming pools and the end of ornamental fountains during the month of August and, eventually, the entire month of September

Forest fires consumed 57.940 hectares this year, more than double the entire 2021 figure, according to provisional data from the Institute for Nature Conservation and Forestry

A dedicated Eurobarometer study shows that Portugal is the second country in the bloc that 'feels most the economic consequences of the war in Ukraine, which most European countries say they have not yet felt'

Parliament has approved the first reading of four bills by the Socialist Party, Left Blocc, IL and PAN that regulate the decriminalisation of medically assisted death

With 2,3 million people in Portugal in poverty - around one in five - President Marcelo has called for a global strategy to tackle the issue 'as quickly as possible'

Portuguese association 'Sustainable Earth' has called the collective irrigation system fed by the Alqueva reservoir 'a possible ecocide', having caused a collapse of biodiversity in the area