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Mount Pico rising through mist over a lake on Pico Island in the Azores

Azores Airlines Adds Summer Flights Linking Lisbon to Faial and Pico

Azores Airlines is reinforcing its summer schedule between Lisbon and the central-group islands of Faial and Pico, adding flights to Pico on 8 and 29 August and to Horta on 15 August and 5 September to meet peak-season demand.

The Portugal Brief 15 Jul 2026

Chega Urges the Government to Track a University Study Into Contamination Around the Azores' Lajes Air Base

Chega Urges the Government to Track a University Study Into Contamination Around the Azores' Lajes Air Base

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...

The Portugal Brief 12 Jul 2026

Austrian Airlines Connects Vienna to Ponta Delgada, Giving the Azores a Fourth Lufthansa-Group Link

Austrian Airlines Connects Vienna to Ponta Delgada, Giving the Azores a Fourth Lufthansa-Group Link

Austrian Airlines launched a weekly Vienna–Ponta Delgada flight on 30 June, running Tuesdays until 8 September. It becomes the Lufthansa Group's fourth carrier at Sao Miguel, in a record Azores summer with 16 airlines and direct links to 12 countries.

The Portugal Brief 01 Jul 2026

Dramatic volcanic basalt cliffs meeting the Atlantic in the Azores, illustrating the archipelago at the centre of a farm-aid dispute

Azores Growers Left Out of a National Farm-Aid Package, Triggering a €2.2 Million Regional Rift

Azorean farmers were excluded from a national package easing rising production costs, a roughly €2.2 million gap that has prompted the regional government to demand inclusion and the agriculture minister to signal an amendment.

The Portugal Brief 30 Jun 2026

Green volcanic cliffs and farmland headlands meeting the deep blue Atlantic on the coast of the Azores.

Azores Government Opens a Santa Maria Bypass and Hospital Scanner as the Island Council Presses Seven Demands

As the Azores government inaugurates a new Vila do Porto bypass and a hospital CT scanner on Santa Maria, the island's council hands over a seven-point memorandum of unmet needs, ranking health, transport and education at the top.

The Portugal Brief 28 Jun 2026

Ponta Delgada Capital Portuguesa da Cultura Loses Half Its €5.3 Million Envelope After Turismo de Portugal Walks and Chega + Movimento PDL Para Todos Block the €2 Million Câmara Top-Up

Ponta Delgada Capital Portuguesa da Cultura Loses Half Its €5.3 Million Envelope After Turismo de Portugal Walks and Chega + Movimento PDL Para Todos Block the €2 Million Câmara Top-Up

PDL26 — Ponta Delgada's year as Capital Portuguesa da Cultura — has lost €2.3M of its original €5.3M envelope after Turismo de Portugal pulled investment, EU sources receded and Chega + Movimento PDL Para Todos blocked a €2M Câmara Municipal top-up, leaving the operating budget around €3M.

The Portugal Brief 12 Jun 2026

Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel Defers Lajes-Accord Revision Until After the Middle East Crisis on RTP Antena 1 — Thirty-Year-Old Treaty Calls for 'Many Adjustments' Ahead of Mid-June Parliamentary Hearing

Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel Defers Lajes-Accord Revision Until After the Middle East Crisis on RTP Antena 1 — Thirty-Year-Old Treaty Calls for 'Many Adjustments' Ahead of Mid-June Parliamentary Hearing

Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel told RTP Antena 1 on Tuesday 9 June that the Acordo das Lajes (Lajes Agreement) governing United States use of the Azores airbase will need revision — but not under the pressure of the current Middle East crisis....

The Portugal Brief 10 Jun 2026

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