BdP's June Boletim Económico cuts the 2025 foreign-national net-migration estimate to 6,200 entries per month, half the 13,200 logged across 2024. Governor Álvaro Santos Pereira flags the squeeze on tourism and construction labour pools.
The Banco de Portugal (Bank of Portugal, BdP) Boletim Económico — Junho 2026 (June 2026 Economic Bulletin), published Sunday 15 June, carries a thematic study titled Housing in Portugal: determinants of supply and dynamics of prices and rents that...
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The Glória ao Rock festival locks in its 25th edition across 19 and 20 June at Glória do Ribatejo in the concelho of Salvaterra de Magos, with a bill that has tilted explicitly toward alternative Portuguese-language acts and a structure that has...
The Conselho de Ministros (Council of Ministers) approved on Thursday, 11 June, a decree-law that extends to 31 December 2026 the deadline by which municipalities with more than 1,000 registered Alojamento Local (Local Accommodation, AL) units must...
The Conselho de Ministros (Council of Ministers) approved on Thursday, 11 June, an amendment to the Código do Imposto sobre o Valor Acrescentado (VAT Code, Código do IVA) that switches the value-added-tax declaration obligation on a slice of the...
The Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (Lisbon City Council) is preparing to withdraw the universal 50% discount on school meals it extended in 2024 to pupils outside the Acção Social Escolar (School Social Action, ASE) scheme — a roll-back the...
