Monday, July 24, 2017

'Fresh influx' of Venezuela migrants to arrive in Portugal when school year ends


Speaking in Funchal, the capital of Madeira, Carneiro said that the government had sought to "identify channels of contact, namely in the secretariat of state of higher education and in the secretariat of state of education, so that the regional authorities can proceed to an assessment and then to the recognition of the educational level of pupils who might want to join the Portuguese school system." A large proportion of the hundreds of thousands of Portuguese citizens resident in Venezuela are from families originally from Madeira. The political and economic turmoil in the South American country in recent months has already prompted many thousands to flee to Portugal, and in particular Madeira. More…

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