“Task force” created to manage passport control at Lisbon and Faro airports
The misery of interminable border controls at Lisbon, and often Faro, airport may be coming to an end. Hot-on-the-heels of pressure from the country’s hoteliers association, the government has created
Portugal Digital Summit 2025: Reinventing business in the age of AI
An AI app dedicated to professional networking was one of many innovations unveiled at this year’s Portugal Digital Summit 2025 – the largest digital economy event of its kind in
Investigators quiz maintenance company responsible for fated Glória funicular
The legal representative of the Portuguese company contracted by Carris – Lisbon’s public transport operator – to provide maintenance services on the fated Gloria funicular (and other similar modes of
Funicular report: PS Socialists demand resignation of Carris management
Socialist Party councillors on Lisbon City Council are demanding the resignation of Carris management, following the conclusions of the GPIAAF preliminary report on the Glória funicular tragedy which caused the
“Not fit to take passengers”: interim report on funicular tragedy in which 16 people died
An interim report, which stresses that this is not the moment to apportion blame, has revealed that the cable connecting the two cabins of the Glória funicular/ elevator which gave
Rise in media reported violent crime in Lisbon “over done” – minister
Portuguese interior minister Maria Lúcia Amaral has warned today that the recent wave of violent crime in the Lisbon region is ‘generating an exaggerated sense of insecurity in relation to
PSP foil major drugs trafficking network operating in Greater Lisbon
PSP are celebrating another major coup against drug trafficking operations in the Greater Lisbon area. This time, almost six tonnes of hashish was seized, along with guns, drones, thousands of
United Lisbon Education Hub partners with Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in the United States and the United Lisbon Education Hub (Edu Hub Lisbon) in Portugal have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing a multi-sectoral and
Psychologist accused of sexually abusing teen patient
A Lisbon-area psychologist has been arrested by PJ police on suspicion of repeatedly abusing a teenage patient he was supposed to help. The man is accused of sexually abusing a
Lisbon Insiders launch first Restaurant Week
Following the success of the 4th Lisbon Insiders Awards last March, which celebrated the city’s most outstanding culinary initiatives, the platform is now unveiling its next major project: the inaugural Lisbon Insiders Restaurant Week. Taking place from October 24