The Banco de Portugal has approved only five gestores de créditos in the five months since the Lei 70/2024 regime governing the secondary non-performing-loan (NPL) market entered into force on 10 December 2025. ECO carried the count on Wednesday:...
The Socialist Party (PS) and the Social Democratic Party (PSD) closed ranks against a Chega motion to declassify the surviving Forças Populares 25 de Abril (FP-25) files and the parallel archive on the post-25 April far-right bombing networks, with...
A group of 40 foreign workers, the majority of them Colombian nationals recruited into Portugal's civil-construction sector, filed formal complaints with the Agência para a Integração, Migrações e Asilo (AIMA) over forged residency authorisations...
The pilots' union Sindicato dos Pilotos da Aviação Civil (SPAC) sharpened its position on the TAP privatisation on Wednesday, with president Hélder Santinhos telling Público that the bid from Lufthansa would create "um problema na estabilidade...
Portugal's Comissões de Proteção de Crianças e Jovens (CPCJ) catalogued 54 cases of early or forced marriage in 2025, the first year the protection network has tracked the category as its own typology. The figure surfaced at the network's annual...
Muddy Waters Capital sued Mota-Engil in a Texas civil court on 19 December 2025 for defamation tied to a December 2024 Expresso interview with CEO Carlos Mota Santos. The group has filed for dismissal and CFO José Carlos Nogueira frames the case as carrying 'little relevance' to operations.
Decreto-Lei 97/2026, in the DR on Tuesday 20 May, slaps a 10% IMT surcharge on any IVA-6% homebuyer who fails to designate the property as primary residence within six months — or vacates inside the first 12 months. Marriage, divorce and new dependents are the only carve-outs.
