📋 In This Edition * Market Wrap: Lisbon Closes Friday Flat as Galp Cancels Out the Wind Names * The Movers: Galp Rebounds With Oil, EDP Renováveis the Weak Spot * Business & Tech Focus: A
The Ministry of the Economy has declared a four-star rural hotel in Amarante to be in the public interest, unlocking almost 1.5 hectares of protected National Agricultural Reserve land — the latest in a pattern of farmland waivers for tourism projects.
Less than two years after launching, the low-cost operator Digi reported about €37 million in first-half revenue in Portugal and some 960,000 active services, up more than a fifth in a year — a genuine fourth network reshaping how much residents pay for mobile and internet.
Spain will keep the ageing Almaraz nuclear plant, on the Tagus barely 100 km from the Portuguese border, running until June 2030. The environmental group Zero wants Lisbon to object, and the border districts of the Beira Baixa are already demanding answers.
The Lusolav consortium bidding on the Oiã–Taveiro stretch of the Porto–Lisbon high-speed line admits its design drops a four-track upgrade at Coimbra that the tender required, using a reversal manoeuvre instead — a compliance question over a contract worth an estimated €2.4 billion.
Lisbon City Council says a wave of vandalism has torn more than 1,000 bikes from their docks and wrecked over 1,400 docking points since January, with damage in this cycle alone near €400,000 — leaving the Gira bike-share network with gaps in service.
AIMA says it has scheduled a record 55,000 family-reunification appointments this year and issued 15,000 residence cards. Immigration lawyers counter that fewer than three in ten cases have actually been finalised, and want the agency to reveal the true size of the queue.
