All three main Euribor rates fell on 16 April, with the 6-month benchmark — used in 39 per cent of Portuguese variable-rate mortgages — slipping to 2.453 per cent. But Eurostat revised March eurozone inflation upward to 2.6 per cent, complicating the ECB's path.
Road fatalities are up roughly 40 per cent on last year, 20 people died over Easter alone, and the GNR's old Traffic Brigade — disbanded in 2007 — is being stood up again. Minister Luís Neves unveiled a new Highway Code, unannounced STOP operations and more average-speed radars.
The IUC motor tax will no longer fall in the month of a car's registration. Parliament's specialty committee approved a new schedule on 15 April: a transitional calendar in 2027 and, from 2028, fixed April, July and October payment dates depending on the size of the bill.
Porto's Judicial Police estimates that half of the €505 million the SNS spent subsidising diabetes drugs between 2020 and 2025 was diverted to off-label weight-loss prescriptions — a fraud concentrated in Ozempic that Lisbon only closed by regulation in February 2026.
Portugal's independent fiscal watchdog has issued an unusual warning about the country's labour market — and it is not about unemployment. The Conselho das Finanças Públicas (CFP) projects that compensation of employees will reach 48.5 per cent of...
The weekly cost of an essential basket of 63 food products tracked by consumer protection association Deco PROteste has climbed to EUR 259.52 — the highest figure on record since the methodology began in 2022 — and the sixth consecutive week of...
