Monday, 4 November , 2024

Costa Antonio

‘This EU budget proposal is bad,’ Portugal’s PM António Costa tells...

By Isabel Marques da Silva 20/02/2020 Portugal's prime minister has hit out at a proposal on how to finance the European Union in the coming years. António Costa,...

« Une planète en surchauffe plongée dans les eaux glacées du...

À propos du prix Nobel d’économie - Antoine Costa 21 novembre 2018 Le 8 octobre dernier la question climatique se trouva au centre de l’actualité médiatique. La...

Portugal’s response to forest fires undermined by austerity

Between 2000 and 2013, Portugal, which comprises less than 10 percent of the landmass in Europe’s Mediterranean region, recorded a third of the fires. The number of fires has increased from around 3,000 in 1980 to around 20,000 a year today. They are always followed by an official enquiry and report, which blames the lack of firefighting resources,