A family-owned food producer in the north of Portugal is betting on its own balance sheet — rather than European subsidies — to fund an expansion and take one of its brands across the border into Spain. Officetotal Food Brands, which runs the...
One of the Algarve's most celebrated cultural landmarks has come back to life. On Saturday, the Museu da Cortiça (Cork Museum) in Silves — the medieval former capital of the Algarve, set on the banks of the Rio Arade (Arade River) — reopened its...
Portugal has joined eight other European countries in asking Brussels to keep the escape hatch open on the European Union's new biometric border system. In a joint letter to Magnus Brunner, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Portugal,...
EDP Renováveis (EDP Renewables), the green-energy arm of Portugal's EDP (Energias de Portugal), generated 4% more electricity in the first half of 2026 than it did a year earlier, with a fast-growing solar fleet doing most of the heavy lifting. The...
The long-running question of what decades of military fuel storage have left in the ground around the Lajes Air Base has returned to Portugal's Parliament. Chega, the third-largest party in the Assembleia da República (Assembly of the Republic), has...
Portugal's troubled switch to digital exam marking has moved from a technical headache into a full-blown political and legal fight. Fenprof (Federação Nacional dos Professores, the National Federation of Teachers), the country's largest teaching...
The government has launched Treasury Certificates Series 5, a ten-year state savings product with a rising gross rate that starts at 2.35% and reaches 3.35% in the final year, for an average of about 2.71%. The minimum subscription is €1,000, interest is paid annually, and savers can buy through Afo
