Patron saint of children, sailors and the poor Nicholas (270 – 343 AD) was born in the third century in the region of Lycia. At that time, the area was Greek but is now called Demre, situated on the southern coast of Turkey. He was made Bishop of Myra – the metropolis of Lycia – […]
Today, Lisbon tops Europe’s housing unaffordability ranking Unaffordable house prices and rents are a continent-wide concern. Over the past decade, house prices in the EU rose by 50% on average, and rents by 18%. Housing policy has favoured those who invest in homes at the cost of those who live in them. Across Europe, property […]
Health Services disease: easy diagnosis, difficult treatment Is the National Health Service still sustainable?60% of private deliveries are by Caesarean section, twice as many as in the SNS.43 public hospitals on the brink of collapse.More than two thousand family doctors are out of the SNS.Health Centres lack almost everything.Public hospitals suffer from ‘persistent underfunding.’ Centre-right […]
Driving issues in the local elections were housing, public health and education Portugal’s far-right, xenophobic, nationalist and biggest party in the country Chega (‘Enough’) – defending the reduction of state intervention in the economy, promoting stricter immigration, supporting chemical castration for child abusers and incessantly attacking the Roma population – has won its first three […]
Orcas sinking boats: annoyed or just playing? Orcas are known for two things: being very intelligent and being very ruthless.Last month, new incidents with orcas led to the sinking of a sailing boat just off Costa de Caparica (Lisbon) and damaging boats in Cascais Bay. It is the third boat sinking after confrontations with orcas […]
Lost in translation: hamburgers instead of citizens Last week CHEGA leader André Ventura and his party voted against President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa’s request to travel to Berlin for an official visit, including participation in the city’s Bürgerfest. Although other parties saw no harm in the visit, Ventura stated in Parliament: ‘You are approving a […]
‘Why work to see everything burned?’ ‘A person is always thinking,’ says António Barroso from Piódão, who doesn’t want to leave the land where fruit trees used to grow around the house. The fire burned everything, but his house was miraculously spared. ‘The house is all I have and the profit of a lifetime. Except […]
Portugal boasts ten official nature reserves The best places to find flamingos in Portugal is in the Algarve. While flamingos usually do not breed there, they make a stop in the wetlands of Portugal. Throughout the year, they can be seen in the Ria Formosa Natural Park – the impressive wetland spanning over 60 kilometres […]
Citizen initiative advocates reopening of the ‘Museum of the Art of the Sick‘ The Lisbon Municipal Assembly recently recommended the City Council to intensify negotiations with the Government for a reopening of the Museum of the Art of the Sick at the former psychiatric hospital Miguel Bombarda, following a petition from the Lx Citizenship Forum. […]