Diplomatic relations, EU affairs, and Portugal's role in international politics.
Ambassador Frederico Silva says only 'a very small number' of Portuguese have been repatriated after June's La Guaira earthquake, which killed at least 6,125 people — 138 of them Portuguese and luso-descendants. The deeply rooted community, he says, wants to rebuild in Venezuela.
As the Portuguese national football team prepared to open its 2026 FIFA World Cup campaign against the Democratic Republic of the Congo at 18:00 Western European Summer Time (WEST) in Houston, the country's bilateral economic relationship with its...
Portugal will sit on the United Nations Security Council from 1 January 2027 to 31 December 2028, after a 3 June vote in New York that placed Lisbon ahead of every other European candidate in the same round. It is the country's fourth election to...
EU High Representative Kaja Kallas names Sofia Moreira de Sousa as EU Ambassador to Albania and Francisco André as EU Ambassador to Brazil in a 33-post EEAS rotation announced on 4 June 2026 — Moreira de Sousa moves from the Commission's Lisbon Representation, André transfers from Mexico City.
Portugal won the UN Security Council non-permanent seat on the first round on 3 June 2026 with 134 votes — above the 128 two-thirds threshold and three votes ahead of Austria. The 2027-2028 term is Portugal's eighth on the Council and pushes Germany off the body for the first time since 1976.
President of the Republic António José Seguro formalised the standing invitation to Papa Leão XIV for a state visit to Portugal in the calendar year 2027 , the Belém presidency office confirmed on its website on Tuesday 19 May 2026. The formal note...
PAICV's 17 May absolute-majority sweep in Cabo Verde resets Lisbon's premises on three connected files: the diaspora corridor through Portugal, the escudo-euro peg anchored by an IGCP facility since 1999, and the CPLP-mobility geometry that links Praia to Lisbon and Brasília.
