The regional government of Portugal’s Azores islands is appealing to the US to make delayed salary payments to civilian workers at a US air base on the Atlantic archipelago.
The late payments are the result of a government shutdown in Washington that has stretched on for more than two weeks with
Halting the salaries of Portuguese workers is “unprecedented and unacceptable,” Artur Lima, vice-president of the Azores region, said in a statement on the administration’s website. The delay violates US commitments under the US-Portugal Cooperation and Defense Agreement, ...