A despacho signed on Monday and gazetted in the Diário da República raises the per-saver Series F ceiling from €100,000 to €250,000 and the combined Series E+F cap from €350,000 to €500,000. Series F is paying 2.138% in April; the Aforro stock crossed €41 billion in March.
The countdown has started for foreign owners of rural and mixed property in Portugal. Under Decreto-Lei n.º 87/2026 of 15 April , published last week in the Diário da República , registration of rural ( rústicos ) and mixed ( mistos ) properties at...
Benfica steal the Lisbon Derby in stoppage time. Câmara approves 243 new homes at Alto do Lumiar plus €15.8M for Bairro Padre Cruz. April 14 Metro strike desconvocada — fresh 24-hour walkout set for May 26. Santa Apolónia faces six-month closure. And a 25 de Abril under political row.
BdP's 2025 supervision report forces banks to refund €8.9 million for improper charges and logs 33,375 complaints and a 45% jump in illicit-activity cases. Conselho de Ministros overhauls the ITV regime. 600 Lisbon cultural agents accuse EGEAC of emptying out the 25 de Abril.
Lisbon enters its 52nd 25 de Abril with a row over what the city is — and is not — doing to mark it. Around 600 cultural agents have put their names to a petition under the title “Festas de Abril sem Abril” — “April Festivals...
The Conselho de Ministros communiqué of 23 April 2026 contains a decree-law that has been quietly working its way through the inter-ministerial circuit since the autumn: a complete overhaul of the legal framework governing periodic technical...
The numbers landed quietly on Friday: in 2025, Banco de Portugal forced the banks to return €8.9 million in improperly charged interest and commissions to their customers, opened 479 investigations into illicit financial activities — a 45% jump on...
