Disgraced art empresario Joe Berardo charged with aggravated fraud
Berardo and three others accused of ‘simulating civil action’ to prevent banks recover €1 billion in loans Years after his disastrous questioning by a parliamentary committee, the now fairly disgraced
Hundreds of public sector workers demand 15% pay rises
Union reps deliver “series of demands” to prime minister’s official residence With the media focused on this afternoon’s State of the Nation debate in parliament, hundreds of public sector workers
Young commandos’ agonising deaths: Supreme Court suspends effective jail terms
Army doctor and instructor will not now have to serve time behind bars The arduous process by families who lost two fit young men in appalling circumstances on a Commandos
What the OBBB means for Americans in Portugal and for Portuguese investments in the U.S.
New U.S. tax legislation has now cleared Congress, with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBB”) finally passed by both chambers. For Americans living in Portugal and for Portuguese residents
Loures Municipal police in corruption/ embezzlement/ abuse of power probe
PJ police search premises this morning; no arrests this far PJ judicial police carried out searches this morning at Loures Municipal Police on suspicion of crimes of corruption, embezzlement, abuse
Crime in Portugal falls 1.3% – but media coverage of crime increases 130%
Study highlights power of (negative/ expedient) publicity Criminality in Portugal over the past 25 years has actually reduced by 1.3%. But the focus on crime by the media/ social media
Minister’s driver receives suspended sentence for killing motorway worker
Closure finally over tragedy of much-loved family man Nuno Santos The family of motorway worker Nuno Santos heard today that the driver of the ministerial car that killed him on
Portugal’s defence cluster moves forwards
Factory to produce 50 million rounds of small calibre ammunition per year idD Portugal Defense, the state-owned defence holding company, plans to set up a small-calibre ammunition factory in Alcochete,
Resorts with private beaches told to ‘snap out of it’
Authorities swoop on Troia-Melides coastal stretch; find 10 beaches with “conditioned access” News this week that will buoy Algarve residents concerned by activity ‘conditioning access to beaches’ is that environment
Portugal rejects recognition of Palestinian state
Only Gaza aid for children gets green light Portugal’s Parliament on Friday rejected all proposals urging the government to recognise the State of Palestine, with right-wing parties PSD, CDS, Chega,