Politics Parliament Moves to Stop Twenty-Two Competition Authority Cases Worth €800 Million From Going Out the Door on Prescription — Lawyers Warn the Retroactive Fix Will Land at the Constitutional Court 30 April 2026
Economy INE's March Unemployment Read Holds at 5.8% as the Labour Underutilisation Rate Slips to 9.8% — Employed Population Reaches 5.07 Million, the Highest March Reading in the Quarterly Labour Force Survey Series 30 April 2026
Business Lone Star Closes the Door on Eight Years at Novo Banco as French Group BPCE Takes 100% Ownership Today — Portugal's Fourth-Largest Bank Crosses Into the Hands of Europe's Second-Biggest Cooperative on 30 April 2026 30 April 2026
Business CP More Than Doubles Its 2025 Profit to €4.8 Million on a Record 208 Million Passengers — Comboios de Portugal Exits the General Government Sector and Will Gain Procurement Autonomy in 2027 30 April 2026
Business Gustavo Paulo Duarte Elected to Lead the CCP for the 2026-2029 Term — Sixteen-Year Vieira Lopes Era Closes at the Confederation's Fiftieth-Anniversary General Assembly 30 April 2026
Economy Bank of Portugal's March Statistical Release Catches Mortgage-Credit Growth at 10.3% — Strongest Annual Pace Since 2003 and Comfortably Above the Eurozone's 2.9% 30 April 2026
Politics Football Leaks Whistleblower Rui Pinto Walks Out of His Second Trial Acquitted of All 241 Counts — Lisbon's Central Criminal Court Voids the Indictment as Constitutionally Defective and Says a 'Stretch of His Life' Cannot Be Tried Twice 29 April 2026
Politics Brussels Opens an Infringement Case Over Salary-Scale Discrimination Against Fixed-Term Public-Sector Workers — Portugal Has Two Months to Realign the Lei Geral do Trabalho em Funções Públicas With Directive 1999/70/EC 29 April 2026
Portugal DBRS Morningstar Rules Out a Credit-Driven Housing Bubble in Portugal — But Names the €2.3 Billion Garantia Jovem as the Risk Vector to Watch as Banco de Portugal Drafts a Macroprudential Brake 29 April 2026
Finance Certificados de Aforro Yields Climb to a One-Year High of 2.195% for May Subscriptions — Series F Pulls Decisively Ahead of Bank Deposits as Euribor Crawl Filters Through to Retail Savers 29 April 2026
Economy Portuguese Goods Exports Tumble 6.4% in the First Quarter as Imports Climb 2.6% — INE's Wednesday Release Catches a Worsening External Balance With the TTE Adjustment Hiding the Real Trend 29 April 2026
