Diplomatic relations, EU affairs, and Portugal's role in international politics.
A foreign ministry order published on 22 October creates a Portuguese consulate-general covering all of Nepal. It sets no opening date and says nothing about visas, which are still handled by the embassy in New Delhi and VFS.
Lin Chien-Chi, who chairs the Portugal-Taiwan friendship group in Taiwan's parliament, says an office would help citizens and trade. Portugal's parliament voted down the idea in January.
Marco Rubio urged Portugal to buy the F-35 on his first visit to Lisbon, but no agreement was signed. The government says the fighter choice is not made, Lajes was not discussed, and the prosecutors' inquiry goes on.
The President is in Strasbourg for two days to mark half a century of membership. He speaks to the Parliamentary Assembly at noon on Wednesday and then visits the European Court of Human Rights.
On a visit to Luanda, labour secretary of state Adriano Moreira said Portugal needs workers, pointed to a new labour attaché now in post in Luanda and tied the formal route to social protection from the first day.
The audience is set for 08:00 Lisbon time. The trip also takes in the Portuguese church in Rome and the Holy See's foreign minister, with an invitation for a papal visit to Fátima in 2027 on the table.
Two one-page decrees in Friday's gazette carry 103 pages of treaty text between them. The Ukraine deal opens in three stages and ends with EU carriers flying inside Ukraine, but EASA still advises operators to stay out of the airspace until 2027.
