Informação: Budget execution in February registers positive balance of 21.5 million Euros
The Regional Director for the Budget and Treasury stated that the overall budget execution balance in the regional consolidation perimeter reached 21.5 million Euros in February over the same period of last year. According to him, this figure "evidences the policies pursued by the Regional Government to control public expenditure in view of the stability of regional public finances." "As in the pr... Mais >>

Informação: Investments on six islands to improve access of Azorean population to health, says Vasco Cordeiro
The President of the Government highlighted today the investments of nearly 15 million Euros in regional hospitals and health centres with the aim of creating better conditions to ensure the access of the Azorean population to health care. "There is an overall investment of 15 million Euros under implementation in Regional Health Service infrastructures on six islands of the archipelago. Our goal... Mais >>

Informação: Wealth generation in the Region increased by more than 600 million Euros in four years, says Vasco Cordeiro
The President of the Regional Government stated on Corvo Island that the series of investments channelled to this island clearly reflect the "significant evolution" in the economic revitalisation of the Region in recent years. "This evolution is evident on each island with the completion of investments and the economic revitalisation of the Region. Even today, we received information evidencing ... Mais >>

Informação: Regional Government supports Santa Casa da Misericórdia and modernises computer network of Mouzinho da Silveira School on Corvo Island
The Regional Government will support the Santa Casa da Misericórdia of Corvo (social solidarity institution) by allocating 9,500 Euros for the acquisition of materials to be installed in the Elderly Social Centre, revealed by the Regional Assistant Secretary of the Presidency for Parliamentary Affairs. "This Social Centre is attended by 22 elderly people. The Regional Government believes it ... Mais >>

Informação: Regional Government streamlines curriculum management in basic education and creates higher education admission award
The Regional Government will move forward with proposals to streamline teaching in preschool and elementary school levels as well as to create na award for the admission of Azorean students in higher education, as announced by the Regional Assistant Secretary for the Presidency for Parliamentary Affairs on Corvo. Berto Messias spoke at the presentation of the Press Release from the Council of the... Mais >>

Informação: Launch of public tender for Space Port is "important and effective step" in project to benefit Santa Maria and the Azores
The President of the Azorean Government stated today that the launch of the public tender for the construction and operation of a space port on Santa Maria Island "is an important and effective step" in the implementation of a project that will yield "positive results for this island and the Azores." Vasco Cordeiro stated that the public tender published Tuesday in the Official Journal "is based o... Mais >>

Informação: Economic growth above 2% in 2018 evidences merit of public policies, says Vasco Cordeiro
The President of the Government highlighted the merit of the public policies implemented in the Region that have contributed, according to data published today, to the economic growth above two percent registered by the Azores in four consecutive years. "The wealth generated in the Azores in 2018 grew more than two percent. In fact, the year of 2018 was the fourth consecutive year in which the wea... Mais >>

Informação: Azores to host General Assembly of CPMR's Islands Commission in 2020
The Regional Secretary of the Presidency for External Relations welcomed in Corfu, Greece, the immense satisfaction of the Regional Government with the holding of the next General Assembly of the Islands Commission of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe (CPMR) in the Region. "The Regional Government was immensely pleased with the positive response to the invitation sent to CPMR... Mais >>

Informação: Azores strengthen cooperation with Macaronesia and Outermost Regions after 2020, says Rui Bettencourt
The Regional Assistant Secretary of the Presidency for External Relations stated on Corfu, Greece, that the Azores have "two large spaces of cooperation" in the next multiannual financial framework from 2020 onwards, namely Macaronesia and the Outermost Regions. Rui Bettencourt participated in the panel "Which future for maritime cooperation in the new European territorial cooperation programme" u... Mais >>

Informação: President of the Government receives Operational Commander of the Azores
The President of the Government granted today an audience for the presentation of farewell to the Operational Commander of the Azores, Lieutenant General Amândio Miranda, who has completed his two-year term in the Region. At the meeting held at Santana Palace in Ponta Delgada, Vasco Cordeiro conveyed the Government's appraisal the work carried out by Lieutenant General Amândio Miranda w... Mais >>