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- Pharmacies have 20 days to get ready for Portugal's new free-medicine rule
- Portugal tells the UN: enough of this "collective masochism" over oil prices
- Portugal's 37th Storm Kristin law was published on Tuesday
- If you check passports for Portugal, the government is offering you €160 a month
- Portugal's fifth income tax cut still needs a vote before November payslips change
- The Portuguese state is back in REN with 13.7%, and parliament wants a rulebook for the next one
- How long can Brazil take to answer US tariffs? Its own decree allows 270 days
- The Socialists booked their cost-of-living debate for Friday. Chega's own measures only bite in January
- Portugal's ministers got more specialised. The parties never loosened their grip
- Sweden's Social Democrats came first on Sunday. Nobody has the final numbers yet
- When does Chega vote on its leadership again? Its board is aiming at 20–22 November
- Portugal's GNR will protest alongside the PSP from late September
- Portugal's parliament is back on Wednesday with six sitting days booked and a budget due on 12 October
- Portugal has just put a carbon price on the fuel in your tank and the gas in your boiler
- Pensioners in Portugal will get up to €1,611.13 with their December pension
- 1,777 pregnant workers and new parents in Portugal were told their contracts would not be renewed
- Four zones lost Portugal's €750 teacher bonus. All four are in the Alentejo or the Lezíria
- The AfD won Saxony-Anhalt with 43.8%, three seats short of a majority
- Portugal has just raised its no-tender ceiling for public works fivefold. The new rules start on 1 October
- Portugal's 2027 budget already has €4.78 billion spent before it is written
- What does it take to bring down a Portuguese government? 116 votes
- Guinea-Bissau backed a new constitution with 70%. Its capital was the only region that said no
- Portugal's criminal courts start capping witness lists at 20 today
- Left Bloc wants the state bank to hold mortgage payments flat for a year (and double the AIMI)
- Chega will table a censure motion on Tuesday if Luís Neves stays as interior minister
- Portugal is rewriting two civil-registry careers, with back pay to July 2025
- Portugal has finally named the regulators for your EU passenger rights on trains, coaches and ferries
- Figueira da Foz has finished the courtroom. Nobody has set the opening date
- Portugal's president wants more state money for the interior and the border (and more trust in town halls)
- Portugal's new criminal-policy law takes effect on 1 September, with a prosecution team built only for forest fires
- Portugal's ride-hailing shake-up is signed. Drivers now face 50 hours of training and a 30-question exam
- Hungarian public TV puts the news back on air today, 44 days after switching it off
- Portugal's face-covering ban is now law. The ban is one sentence, the exemptions are not
- This pension report says Portugal's social security runs a deficit, not a surplus
- Portugal's poorest pensioners keep free medicines. Pick a pricier brand and they now pay the gap
- Portugal has widened who can receive cultural patronage. Solo artists are now on the list
- Portugal has given its government 180 days to unlock homes trapped in undivided estates
- Another income tax cut and another pensioner bonus, if Portugal's books allow
- What changes for you under Portugal's new childbirth law, now that it has been signed
- Brazil has started the legal process that could put counter-tariffs on US goods
- This parliament register holds every Portuguese MP's CV. Filling it in is optional
- Public dentistry in Portugal has a career ladder for the first time
- Portugal sets no upper age limit for driving. A petition wants one, at 75
- The PSD summer school returns to Castelo de Vide, and nuclear power is on the timetable
- Montenegro opened a citizens' shop in Fafe (and used it to argue Portugal is doing better than it feels)
- Portugal restores the expert-panel route into university's disability quota — from 2027/2028
- Cleared to leave hospital months ago, still in the bed. Portugal's fix became law today
- An attack on any one of them is now an attack on all three
- If your child needs an accessible classroom, Portugal's founding education law now says so
- Six countries have now pledged troops for Gaza. Uganda's parliament voted last
- Portugal's justice minister has ordered the PJ to be audited from the inside
- Netanyahu wants Hamas disarmed first. Washington had said the two things went together
- The Socialists are ready to let the 2027 budget through. The 2025 election is why
- Sat a second-phase exam in Portugal? Results land on Friday, and not everyone trusts them
- Qatar has drafted an interim Hormuz deal, and Trump says the strait could reopen within days
- Why four environmental groups want Portugal's newest dam tender stopped
- Portugal's biggest teachers' federation rejects a recruitment overhaul signed off mid-negotiation
- Another investigation lands on Luís Neves. This one comes from Luxembourg
- Portugal's firefighter welfare fund goes from 3% to 5% (though the money only lands with the 2027 budget)
- Compensation paid to victims of abuse in the Catholic Church is now exempt from Portuguese income tax
- Portugal's parliament debates the exam marking mess today. It cannot make a single minister turn up
- Portugal backs the EU's emergency Ceuta meeting, and it lands on Tuesday
- Hamas has agreed to hand over its weapons, and now comes the hard part
- The Luís Neves case has reached Belém, and the President wants it wrapped up fast
- Ceuta just saw the biggest border crossing in its history, and Spain has already sent almost everyone back
- Portugal has 96 recovery-plan milestones left and until 31 August to close them
- Portugal's social security report has landed on the government's desk, and nobody gets to read it yet
- Portugal's teacher recruitment gets a second contest — and this one never closes
- Claiming compensation from the Portuguese State won't mean going to court
- Phones are being banned in Portuguese schools up to year 9, and schools get a term to adjust
- Guterres leaves the UN at the end of the year, and seven people already want his chair
- André Ventura's parliament office was found turned upside down, and the judicial police have been in
- Trump is hosting Zelenskyy and Netanyahu on the same day, so both wars land at the White House at once
- The ICC has removed Karim Khan as chief prosecutor, something it had never done before
- Portugal's single social benefit gets its rulebook within days, and it costs 30 million euros more a year
- Luis Neves is getting a parliamentary inquiry into his years running the PJ, and he says bring it on
- US Congress wants a button that switches artificial intelligence off
- Carneiro has named the three things PS won't trade away in Portugal's 2027 budget
- Prison and reintegration staff are getting a pay bump — a 225-euro risk supplement and two new careers
- Portugal's 5%-of-GDP defence pledge could land on families' tax bills
- Montenegro went to Rome to bring Portugal and Italy closer, 11 years after the last visit
- Montenegro is skipping his summer holidays — and Ventura is daring him into a confidence vote
- Half of Portugal wants the 2027 budget passed — and all eyes are on Chega
- Trump is threatening Canada with tariffs over wildfire smoke — yes, really
- Andy Burnham is the UK's new prime minister — the seventh in ten years
- Portugal's Socialists gather today with the cost of living at the top of the pile
- Ukraine has a new prime minister — and Koretskyi takes office with Kyiv still in the streets
- Trump, Sheinbaum and Carney share a World Cup final box — and it doubles as a summit
- Montenegro says immigration is 'solved' — a report called it an 'obsession' the same day
- Portugal's new childbirth law drops the term 'obstetric violence' — here's what it says instead
- Ventura wants Luís Neves out of government — and has now put it in writing
- Russia sanctions are moving again in Washington — and Trump says he's on board
- Portugal's fiscal watchdog is getting more teeth — and the budget will follow Brussels' new playbook
- Portugal's single social benefit just cleared its second-to-last hurdle — the President signed off
- The Corgo railway line could come back — Portugal's parliament wants trains again between Régua and Chaves
- Zelensky sacked Fedorov and Kyiv took to the streets demanding him back
- New polls in Portugal keep PS ahead — while AD and Chega fight over second by decimals
- The UK is building its first ballistic missile in half a century — and Ukraine gets it first, in 2027
- Montenegro survived the State of the Nation debate — and Ventura dared him to call a confidence vote
- The Pentagon will test troops over 30 for testosterone, on Hegseth's orders
- Luis Neves releases 108 invoices — and his wife's company sits at the centre of them
- Bloco wants 30% tree cover in every neighbourhood by 2035, and nobody living further than 300 metres from a park
- Montenegro brings a war on red tape to the State of the Nation debate. The opposition is bringing the exams
- Portugal is spending €500,000 to keep its exam system upright until 2027
- State of the Nation debate: Liberal Initiative wants a delay, Speaker says no
- Ukraine reshuffle: PM Yulia Svyrydenko resigns as Zelensky resets wartime government
- LIVRE elects Mendes Lopes and Jorge Pinto: new co-leaders want the party in power
- Portugal exams crisis: Socialists demand answers from Montenegro and float parliamentary inquiry
- Luís Neves under pressure: PJ police contractor did private works on minister's estate
- Trump threatens Iran with '1,000 missiles' over any assassination attempt
- SNS waiting lists: Portugal pulls minor surgeries from the count as doctors cry foul
- Ukraine civilian casualties: UN says June was the deadliest month in four years
- NATO summit ends with license for Ukraine to build Patriot missiles
- Ukrainian children: OSCE accuses Russia of indoctrinating 1.6 million
- Portuguese Navy clashes with court: judge threatens new fine for Chief of Naval Staff
- State of the Nation debate: Portugal's parliament sets its big showdown for July 16
- Ghana defers Ramaphosa visit as anti-migrant violence opens a diplomatic rift with South Africa
- Bank of Portugal HQ: Centeno and Santos Pereira face Parliament over the €192M building
- Housing in Portugal: government approves faster evictions and a social rent subsidy
- Marine Le Pen will run in 2027 — even sentenced to wear an electronic tag
- Maritime security: Portugal takes on more responsibility in the Atlantic — with an eye on the Arctic
- Immigration and Portugal's economy: business chief says the door was opened "without looking at qualifications"
- Chat Control: the EU votes again on scanning your messages
- Macron in Damascus: twin blasts wound 18 during historic Syria visit
- Hamas dissolves its Gaza government: nearly 20 years of rule come to an end
- Portugal exam chaos: Chega demands urgent debate as PS wants an apology
- AD parliamentary days open with Durão Barroso — and without Montenegro
- NATO summit in Ankara: from 5% pledges to paying the bill
- TAP privatisation enters the home straight: Lufthansa and Air France-KLM circling
- Montenegro flies to the World Cup and the opposition boils over
- Marcelo's political summer: between the beach and the veto
- Immigration and labour: Montenegro's second term takes shape
- LIVRE heads to the ballot: Rui Tavares steps aside in leadership race
- No fresh income-tax cut in the budget: what it means for you
- Brussels squeezes Big Tech: heavy fines and more digital sovereignty
- Single Social Benefit approved: many supports, one payment
- US-Iran talks keep the world (and markets) holding its breath
- Portugal tightens its immigration law: what is on the table
- The Brussels summit: what EU leaders decided (and why it touches us)
- Iran threatens to suspend talks with the US
- Southern Lebanon flares up again between Israel and Hezbollah
- Emergency operators on strike: 112 keeps running, but the message is clear
- Labour law rejected: so what does the government do next?
- US and Iran: the ceasefire nobody can guarantee
- PS says it blocked the labour reform and dares Montenegro to react
- Immigration and labour dominate Montenegro's government agenda
- Montenegro's sovereign fund could buy into REN and EDP
- Ukraine and Russia trade large-scale overnight strikes
- Portugal elected to the UN Security Council: what it means
- Israel and Lebanon: a framework deal is announced, but the hard part starts now
- No truce in Ukraine: another night of strikes traded both ways
- Portugal approves a new climate strategy through 2030 — and critics are already pointing fingers
- Venezuela: the debate dividing the world over sovereignty and power
- US eases Venezuela sanctions to let the aid through
- US Senate moves to halt the war with Iran — a first in history
- New York: Mamdani's progressive wing sweeps the primaries
- Labour package voted down: Chega sided with the left
- Portugal is getting a sovereign wealth fund: what Montenegro announced
- Montenegro's second term: what's on the table
- Brussels Wraps Its Summit — and Turns Straight to Moldova
- Labour reform voted down in Parliament: the Government loses, but vows to keep pushing
- PSD gathers in Anadia with the labour reform hanging over it
- Trabalho XXI: the labour reform hits the hard part
- Immigration takes centre stage: the new rules and what's at stake
- Portugal in cohabitation: a right-leaning government, a left-leaning president