The Council of Ministers approved a Government bill on Wednesday 3 June 2026 that transposes Directive (UE) 2024/1712 of the European Parliament and Council on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting victims, sending the...
Portugal entered the official fire season with the Algarve reservoir system at 95% of usable capacity — and Civil Protection deploying 13,335 operatives, 78 aircraft and two Black Hawks. The two readings are not contradictory: a wet winter is exactly what feeds a hot fire run.
Three macro letters reached Lisbon on the same Wednesday: OECD trimming growth to 1.8%, Brussels projecting pension spending at 15.1% of GDP by 2045, and Brussels nudging an IMI patrimonial rebase. Read together, they cinch Portugal's fiscal corset for the rest of the decade.
End-of-day read on the 3 June 2026 CGTP general strike: Lisbon Metro at 100% participation, Carris workshops at 98%, Transtejo at 85% — and central surgical blocks shuttered at São João, Santa Maria, IPO Porto, Braga and Viana do Castelo.
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Setúbal's câmara on Wednesday 3 June became the third Portuguese municipality to formally enter the race for the Capital Portuguesa da Cultura 2028 , joining Leiria — which approved its own candidacy on Tuesday 2 June — and Barreiro, which moved...
Three Portuguese photographers — André Boto, Jerónimo Heitor Coelho and Cláudia Oliveira — earned honourable mentions at the World Food Photography Awards 2026 in London on 2 June. Eggs, morcelas and grilled milho carried Portugal across three of the 27 finalist categories.
