LISBON Portugal's president accepted the line-up of a new minority Socialist government on Tuesday, with Mario Centeno, the mastermind behind the country's first balanced budget in over four decades, keeping his job as Finance Minister.
LISBON Portugal's far-left parties said on Wednesday that they were willing to work with a new minority Socialist government, with the Communists open to cooperating on a case-by-case basis and the Left Bloc favoring a long-term deal.
* Far-right party wins first seat since end of dictatorship (Adds far-right, analyst, details)
LISBON Portugal is heading to a parliamentary election on Sunday with Prime Minister Antonio Costa's Socialists set to win, according to opinion polls, but without an outright majority, after four years of economic growth.
LISBON Portugal's Socialist Prime Minister Antonio Costa aims to retain power at Sunday's parliamentary election with a pledge that looks like an unlikely vote-winner for western Europe's poorest country - no backtracking on tight spending controls. | Video
LISBON They want lower taxes on pet food and oppose bull-fights: with these proposals, Portugal's People-Animals-Nature party could become a kingmaker in a national election next week, its ratings swelled by voters like car factory worker Alexandre Corona.
* Ruling Socialists likely to need just such ally for majority
LISBON, Sept 9 After a long-running investigation, Portugal's competition authority AdC said on Monday it fined 14 banks a total of 225 million euros ($248.6 million)for concerted practices of exchanging sensitive commercial information on credit products.
LISBON/MADRID, Sept 5 Portuguese utility EDP is expected to put Spain's Iberdrola, Norway's Statkraft and Austria's Verbund on a shortlist of final bidders for its hydro assets, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
LISBON, Aug 29 Portugal is finalising plans for an international licensing tender for lithium exploration to take place this year, part of a government push to make the country Europe's top supplier of the metal for electric car batteries.
The Pentagon is considering keeping some U.S. troops near oilfields in northeastern Syria alongside Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to help deny oil to Islamic State militants, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday.