The expert group led by economist Jorge Bravo has delivered its report on the future of Social Security — covering complementary savings, early retirement and the TSU — but the government is holding it back until a disclosure event 'in the coming weeks,' as opposition parties demand to see it. What
A Bank of Spain study puts Portugal's 2021-2025 housing shortfall at about 300,000 homes — 6.6% of all households, proportionally deeper than Spain's — against a near-zero eurozone average. Why a central-bank number matters for anyone renting or buying here.
Portugal's diabetes specialists warn that out-of-date records in the SNS national patient registry can quietly break the co-payment on medicines and monitoring devices — a clinical risk, not just a bureaucratic one, for a group of more than a million people. How to check your registration before it
The government is preparing measures to close the 'lojas de fachada' — shops that trade by day and become illegal migrant dormitories by night — with an autumn licensing overhaul, and Lisbon and Porto want a formal say in which businesses get licensed. What it means for anyone renting at the cheaper
A long-derelict block of central Lisbon, the former Campolide barracks, is slated for 683 homes up to twelve storeys — with no affordable units and a waived environmental assessment. Residents have taken their objections, Público reports, to the prosecutors and Brussels.
