The number of workers in Portugal taking home over €3,000 net a month has quadrupled since 2016 to 125,000, according to a Randstad analysis. Yet the largest group still earns €900 to €1,200, and two-thirds of the top earners are in Greater Lisbon and the North.
A baby girl was born in a firefighters' ambulance on the A9 on Monday, unable to reach a maternity ward because the nearest one had closed. INEM says ambulance births in Portugal rose from 28 in 2024 to 60 in 2025 as obstetric emergencies concentrate into fewer, larger units.
A residents' association sounded the alarm over a document in Sintra's master-plan revision that recommends declassifying the Parque Natural de Sintra-Cascais to open its coast to building. Environment Minister Maria da Graca Carvalho calls the park 'a national pearl' and says only the government, o
Ten months after Finance Minister Miranda Sarmento promised a new, constitutionally sound tax on Portugal's banks, no draft has appeared and the government won't explain the delay — even as the sector posts record profits above 5 billion euros.
A registry and notary workers' union says the backlog across Portugal's conservatorias grew 13% in a single month, from 40,947 to 46,289 delay-days, and accuses the IRN of dropping the global totals from its statistics just as they turned against its recovery narrative.
