Latest news and stories about refugees in Portugal for expats and residents.
Vasco Malta, Head of Mission for the International Organization for Migration in Portugal, anticipates the possibility of new mass migration flows following the war in the Middle East.
Four years ago, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting a war that continues to this day. Anna and Kateryna chose Portugal as their refuge — and they no longer think about leaving.
They are ordinary, unnamed people who rescued other unnamed people who regret having been left without support or aid during the storm. One of these unnamed rescuers, who saved possessions — or more than that — of others, was given a telling-off by his boss for missing work while carrying out anonymous acts of heroism. Reports from CNN Portugal in the devastated country.
REPORT || The fire brigade in Pataias, Leiria, was surprised when a couple of Syrian refugees brought three trays of chicken mandi to feed them, before they saw for themselves the damage the storm had done to their farm. Nearby, a retired man saved his wife by bracing with his shoulders a window that had been blown by the wind.
Leitão Amaro says there is no payment planned at present. Brussels is reviewing Portuguese data after the discovery of a further million immigrants in the country.
According to Diário de Notícias, Portugal will pay more than eight million euros in order not to host around 420 asylum seekers.
A grandmother, 15 mothers and 18 children, victims of the war in Ukraine, arrived in Lisbon on Saturday.
The Government argues that Portugal is under migratory pressure and refuses to commit to hosting refugees under the European solidarity mechanism. This week, there was a European agreement to distribute 21,000 asylum seekers. Portugal voted against it and now wants to negotiate an exception with the Commission.
Portugal voted against the European Commission's Solidarity Mechanism to resettle 21,000 refugees in member states next year. The government claims that the Commission does not have an accurate picture of the national migration pressure, but assures that it is working to find a solution.
