Six months after his strong presidential run, former Liberal Initiative leader João Cotrim de Figueiredo is formalising Portugal em Frente, a civic movement with 18,000 members and a launch set for September — widely read as scaffolding for a 2031 bid.
The hotel group behind the stalled Quartel da Graça five-star project is asking the state to extend its concession from 50 to 75 years and defer rent until March 2030, even as unpaid amounts top €4 million and opposition parties call for the contract to be scrapped.
Lisbon's Calouste Gulbenkian Museum reopens on Saturday after a year and a half of renovation, with free entry through 26 July to mark the foundation's 70th anniversary. Among the changes: a new numismatics gallery and a reworked Lalique Room.
GMV's Portuguese operation will migrate and maintain DEMETER, a Eurocontrol tool that helps aircraft navigate using ground-based beacons when satellite signals fail, under a contract running to 2030 — work that matters more as GPS jamming rises across Europe.
Portugal's latest recruitment round for family doctors closed with just 273 of 711 posts filled — about 38%. The Lisbon and Tagus Valley region took only 113 of 446, even as more than 1.6 million people nationwide still have no assigned family doctor.
Deputies approved four resolutions — from Chega, Livre, the Left Bloc and the Communists, with no votes against — urging the government to work towards reopening the narrow-gauge Linha do Corgo, closed in stages between 1990 and 2009. The recommendations ask for financing, feasibility studies and a
