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Friday Briefing: Summer readings 2025, part I
Good morning and welcome to PORTUGAL DECODED. From history to the arts and, of course, fiction, there is plenty of exciting writing by foreigners about…
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Parliament approves controversial Immigration Law
The bill will now be submitted to the President, who may request a constitutional review or or exercise a political veto before it can take effect.
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AIMA urges foreign residents to register for October local elections
Despite making up about 15% of the resident population, foreigners represented only 0.3% of registered voters in Portugal by late 2024.
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Report: crime has fallen, yet crime stories have doubled
The report points to “a worrying misalignment between the objective reality of crime in Portugal and citizens’ subjective sense of insecurity."
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Court suspends shanty town demolition in Loures
The Socialist-run councils of Loures and Amadora ordered the demolitions, prompting accusations that they were adopting far-right tactics in the run-up…
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Housing market hits new record growth
House prices accelerated in 16 of the 24 municipalities with more than 100 thousand inhabitants, with the municipalities of Santa Maria da Feira and…
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Diogo Jota 'immortalised' in Liverpool mural
The mural is one of the many fan tributes outside Anfield to Jota, who died in a car crash near Zamora, Spain alongside his brother André Silva.
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Historic cultural journal faces closure after 45 Years
Last week, Jornal de Letras (JL) did not appear on newsstands as a result of a strike by its staff, called in response to months of unpaid salaries and…
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Parliament approves income tax reduction for 2025
The approval paves the way for 2026 State Budget negotiations, anchored by an agreement between the ruling AD coalition and Chega.
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Friday Briefing: Political divide deepens on immigration
Good morning and welcome to PORTUGAL DECODED. The left delayed the nationality law vote until September. But the right will still push for immigration…
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Chega faces backlash over exposure of children’s names
The controversy began last week when leader André Ventura read out in Parliament, without consent, the names of children from a public kindergarten in…
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Health Minister under mounting pressure after tragic failures
The government awarded the country’s medical air transport contract to a Malta-based company that had no helicopters or pilots at the time of signing.
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