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Bank Accounts, Debit Cards, and MB WAY — Your Complete Financial Setup Checklist After Landing in Portugal

Moving to Portugal means dealing with a new financial system — and the sooner you open a local bank account, the easier everything else becomes. Whether you're here on a D7 visa, a digital nomad permit, or an EU free-movement basis, a Portuguese...

Opposition Demands Answers After Government Pays EUR 40,000 for AI Platform That Tracks Journalists and Social Media

The Portuguese Government is facing a political firestorm after reports emerged that it paid nearly EUR 40,000 to an Irish analytics company for an AI-powered platform capable of tracking journalists, monitoring social media, and predicting which...

Government Creates CIPO — Portugal's New Unified Command to Prevent a Repeat of Last Summer's Wildfire Catastrophe

Portugal's government has created a new unified command structure to coordinate wildfire prevention across multiple ministries and agencies, in what officials describe as an extraordinary response to an extraordinary threat. The Comando Integrado de...