Coimbra's council is set to vote on Monday to double its municipal tourist tax from €1 to €2 per person per night. The city calculates each overnight stay costs it about €3.49 in services and infrastructure, against €726,000 raised by the levy in 2025, and says the higher rate still falls short of t
The results of this year's ninth-grade national exams did not appear on 17 July as scheduled, with EduQA blaming a backlog in classification and unable to give a new date. Officials also admitted some papers may ultimately be returned without a numerical grade, though higher-education deadlines are
From Monday, 20 July, the average price of diesel is set to climb 13.5 cents to about €1.988 a litre and petrol 6.5 cents to around €1.980, pushed up by renewed Middle East tension. The government's ISP fuel-tax mechanism should claw back part of the diesel rise, but ministers have rejected cutting
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Infrastructure Minister Miguel Pinto Luz says a single pass valid across buses, metros and trains in the Lisbon and Porto metropolitan areas — together about 80% of national transport supply — could arrive by the end of 2026. The main hurdles are technical: reconciling different ticketing systems an
The European Commission has sent Portugal letters of formal notice for missing the deadlines to transpose two EU migration laws — the revised Single Permit Directive on residence-and-work permits and the recast Reception Conditions Directive for asylum seekers. Lisbon has two months to respond befor
The three- and six-month Euribor rates both climbed to their highest levels in more than a year, with the six-month benchmark — the reference for the largest share of Portuguese variable mortgages — reaching 2.717%. The rebound follows the ECB's surprise quarter-point rate rise on 11 June, its first
