A boat with 22 migrants was intercepted during the early hours of Monday by Faro Maritime Police, near Vale do Lobo beach, in Loulé at about 4:50 am, after the Maritime Police was alerted by a local fisherman. Although they have no documents, the young adults revealed themselves to be Moroccan.
Vandalizing statues is an "imbecilic" act, stated President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa this Monday, arguing that the heritage that exists linked to culture and history "must be considered at the time in which they lived", and that nothing "justifies vandalizing or destroying" monuments "that are testimonies to the personality of our history".
This Monday, whilst launching a Portugal Tourism campaign asking the Portuguese to choose to have their holidays within the country, prime-minister António Costa spoke of his own experience with visiting the Algarve this weekend for a short break: “I saw the Algarve as I didn't see it since the 1960s. It's a rare opportunity. As prime minister I do not wish to, but let me for a moment be selfish: it was wonderful to see the Algarve without the usual floods of tourists and queues! Even when I got a traffic jam on the way back ... until that moment I was satisfied, there as prime minister. It really is an opportunity”.
The Lisbon City Council (CML) has already cleaned the statue of Father António Vieira, installed in Trindade Coelho Square, in the Portuguese capital, after it was vandalized on Thursday afternoon with the word “decolonize” painted in red on the pedestal, and graffiti of the same colour on the bronze characters that compose it.
School segregation of Roma children remains at high levels in some countries of the European Union, but Portugal has significantly lower figures comparatively, according to data from the European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), released this Thursday.
Last year, a new record for the amount of individuals granted Portuguese nationality was broken, with the number of applications granted (180 thousand) more than doubling the number of births in Portugal (81 thousand) that same year.
In a statement sent to newsrooms, the Ministry of Internal Administration, headed by Eduardo Cabrita, highlighted that in the independent report of the Institute for Economics & Peace, an approximately 100 page document released this Wednesday (June 10), Portugal appeared in the third position "just behind Iceland and New Zealand."
The director-general of health defended today that parties and festivals as we have known them in previous years cannot be held, but can in a different way from other years as long as comply with rules established to minimize the spread of the novel coronavirus.
