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Braga Parish Treasurer Convicted of Embezzling 23,600 Euros in Test of Local Government Oversight

Braga Parish Treasurer Convicted of Embezzling 23,600 Euros in Test of Local Government Oversight

A court in Braga this week convicted a former parish council treasurer of stealing 23,600 euros from the Junta de Freguesia of Tadim, a small parish in the Braga municipality. The case, while modest in scale, exposes systemic weaknesses in how...

Portugal Pivots to Defence Manufacturing as Government Courts Industrial Heartland

Portugal Pivots to Defence Manufacturing as Government Courts Industrial Heartland

In a small city in northern Portugal known as the "capital of stainless steel," the Defence Minister stood before representatives of 54 companies and made an unusual pitch: your factories, which have spent decades making precision metalwork for...

Constitutional Court Deadlock Enters Second Year as Portugal's Political Consensus Fractures

Constitutional Court Deadlock Enters Second Year as Portugal's Political Consensus Fractures

Portugal's parliament has spent more than a year unable to fill three vacant seats on the Constitutional Court, a deadlock that now threatens to derail the 2027 state budget and expose the fragility of the country's post-revolution political...

LisbonWave26: Lisbon to Test Tsunami Warning Sirens on Tuesday, March 24

LisbonWave26: Lisbon to Test Tsunami Warning Sirens on Tuesday, March 24

If you hear air-raid-style sirens across central Lisbon on Tuesday morning, there is no need to panic. The city's Civil Protection authority will conduct "LisbonWave26," a full-scale test of the municipal tsunami warning and alert system, between...