The SEF’s Asylum and Refugees Office have declined the admissibility of the request for international protection of the eight Moroccan immigrants who landed on the Algarve’s shores back in December. Despite this, the authority has agreed to consider the asylum application of the 11 who arrived illegally on Tuesday in a nearly identical fashion.
The Mayor of Olhão said today that the Portuguese authorities should not give refugee and international protection status to illegal immigrants from Morocco, such as the 11 who were intercepted on a small vessel yesterday off the coast near to Ria Formosa.
Portugal's only far-right deputy sparked outrage today after saying a black member of parliament should be "sent back to her country of origin".
A small boat with 11 migrants who departed from El Jadida, in Morocco, was intercepted by the Maritime Police in front of Barra do Lavajo, between the islands of Armona and Culatra, at about 4:30 am this morning.
A vast hydroelectric project under construction in northern Portugal is set to directly replace the power lost when the government closes the last coal plants, Prime Minister Antonio Costa said on Tuesday. Portugal was the first country in the world to commit to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and last October brought forward a deadline for closing its last coal plants to 2023.
The government has announced plans to bring an end tax exemptions for some foreign residents and overhaul its “golden visa” scheme in changes that are likely to reduce the country’s appeal to wealthy immigrant pensioners and big-earning investors.
The governments of Portugal and Spain are working with China and the European Union in order to repatriate their nationals from the Wuhan area recently struck by the infamous coronavirus, the two countries’ foreign ministers said this week.
A project to use the waste from pruning vines and fruit trees to produce advanced biofuel is being developed at the BLC3 Campus of Technology and Innovation in Oliveira do Hospital, the campus president reports.
