News ECO's Special Report Pegs the Linha Circular at €380 Million for 2 km of Tunnel — Inside the 80% Cost Blowout, the Four Revisions Since 2018, and the 30-Month Delay Pinning Lisbon's Metro to Q2 2026 25 April 2026
Immigration AIMA's Sociocultural Mediation Envelope Bumped to €28 Million for Three Years — Government Locks In the 16-Partnership Network That Replaces the Estrutura de Missão 25 April 2026
Energy Graça Carvalho Pledges to Clear the Vale Eficiência Backlog in 2026 — But by October 2025 Only €3M of the €234M Energy-Poverty Voucher Programme Had Reached Households 25 April 2026
Defence The 5% by 2035 Math Is Now Lisbon's Largest Multi-Year Fiscal Commitment — Inside the €3.84 Billion 2026 Defence Allocation and What It Locks In Through the Decade 25 April 2026
Demographics 850,000 Young Portuguese Now Live Abroad — Why the Observatório da Emigração's 2026 Numbers Are Driving the Government's New Retention Push 25 April 2026
Football FC Porto Holds 79 Points and a Seven-Point Cushion With Four Jornadas Left — The Liga Title Could Be Mathematically Sealed Inside Three Weeks 25 April 2026
Wildfires ANEPC President Tells MPs Civil Protection Budget Must Climb From €134.5M Back to €191M Before Summer — Moura Warns of 'Extremely Difficult' Fire Season and Slams PS Reform That Killed District Operations 25 April 2026
Politics Portugal's Transparency Watchdog Verified Just 883 of 8,620 Politician Declarations in Two Years — Ana Raquel Moniz Says EpT Needs 11 More Staff to Police 10% Backlog 25 April 2026
Telecommunications Three Months After Storm Kristin, 20,000 Households Still Without Fixed Communications — Anacom Logs 1,200 Complaints as Operators Miss Restoration Deadlines 25 April 2026
Road Safety GNR Logs 4,752 Criminal Drunk-Driving Cases and 127 Road Deaths in the First 16 Weeks of 2026 — Speeding Stays the Single Biggest Violation at 30,336 Tickets 25 April 2026
Economy Government Trims the ISP Discount on Diesel by Another 0.8 Cents — Two-Week Tax Bump Now 2.3 Cents as Maria da Graça Carvalho Pockets Part of the Crude Slide 25 April 2026
