Section: Portugal Resident (Portugal)
Animal lovers “sickened” by laws leaving Portugal’s cats and dogs at risk of human consumption
A national newspaper report that “cats and dogs from Portugal can now enter countries like Nigeria, Angola, Colombia, Peru, Jordan, Libya, Ukraine, South Korea and the Philippines” with Expresso asking the question “are they being sold to be eaten” has shocked the country’s animal rights community, leading to a petition demanding answers....
Portugal exports cats and dogs to Korea and the Philippines
Under new legislation, “cats and dogs from Portugal can now enter countries like Nigeria, Angola, Colombia, Peru, Jordan, Libya, Ukraine, South Korea and the Philippines” while China, for the time being, is “only allowed mice”. The news carried at the weekend by Expresso “raises the question as to whether these animals, which are traditionally...
Portugal registers boom in number of requests for asylum
Portugal has been registering a boom in the number of asylum requests it receives, according to TSF radio station. Teresa Tito de Morais, president of the Portuguese Centre for Refugees, said that the country received a never-before-seen 136 asylum requests in the first two months of 2015 alone. Most of them came from Ukrainian citizens, followed...
Portugal ranks 10th in the world’s 15 “grimmest” economies
The good news is that Portugal is in 10th position. Greece, for example, is up near the top at number five and Spain is doing worse, too, pegged at number six. What are we talking about? Bloomberg’s “misery index”: the 15 countries of the world with what the financial website calls the “saddest, most painful economies”. On the basis of...
