Portugal ended 2025 with a record 11,424,031 residents, 14% of them foreign nationals, according to provisional INE figures released on Monday. The country is at once older and more foreign-born than ever.
The week's most important Portugal stories, curated from our daily coverage. This week in Portugal: the stories that mattered most, from politics and the economy to housing, health, and culture. If you missed anything, start here. Banco Português de...
STJ's Acórdão 3/2026 of 17 June pins the proibição de conduzir clock to trânsito em julgado, ruling that pre-trial voluntary licence surrender earns zero credit toward the driving-ban penalty under Article 69(2) of the Código Penal.
Faculdade de Ciências ULisboa names a five-month Biology research-initiation grant after Carolina Fernandes-Henriques, the 30-year-old CUNY neuroscientist who died unexpectedly in 2024. Family-funded, opens September 2026, targets undergraduate retention.
MECI's 1,406 permanent school slots for psychologists, social workers and mediators reset incumbents to step one. The DGAEP opinion wipes salary progression for anyone already inside the public sector, threatening up to €1,000 monthly pay cuts.
Lisboa lived a Rock in Rio week — Parque Tejo opened its 11th edition — but the harder stories were inside the offices: Sana sat on the Quartel da Graça hotel with €4M in back rent, the câmara cleared Cinema Paris for demolition, the DCIAP filed terror charges on a Lisbon Municipal Police trail.
The Quartel da Graça, the early-nineteenth-century barracks complex perched above one of Lisbon's most photographed miradouros, was supposed to reopen by now as a five-star Sana hotel. Almost seven years after the Sana group signed the 2019...
