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The Lisboa Brief — Week of 23 May 2026: Festas de Lisboa Curtain Up, Moedas Calls EES 'Caos' at Humberto Delgado, Flixbus and Rede Expressos Trade Letters Over Sete Rios, and Praça Eduardo Mondlane Wins an Emergency Rehab

The Lisboa Brief — Week of 23 May 2026: Festas de Lisboa Curtain Up, Moedas Calls EES 'Caos' at Humberto Delgado, Flixbus and Rede Expressos Trade Letters Over Sete Rios, and Praça Eduardo Mondlane Wins an Emergency Rehab

Festas de Lisboa 2026 curtain up at Praça do Município under 'Somos Lisboa, Somos Europa'. Moedas warns of EES 'caos' at Humberto Delgado. Flixbus gets 48 of 96 Sete Rios slots and cries bad faith. Praça Eduardo Mondlane wins a 29-flat rehab and the 38th renda acessível opens.
The Portugal Brief
Festas de Lisboa 2026 Run From 29 May to 28 June Under the 'Somos Lisboa, Somos Europa' Banner — Forty-Plus Initiatives, the Grand March on the Night of 12 June and the Sixteen Casamentos de Santo António Frame the Programme

Festas de Lisboa 2026 Run From 29 May to 28 June Under the 'Somos Lisboa, Somos Europa' Banner — Forty-Plus Initiatives, the Grand March on the Night of 12 June and the Sixteen Casamentos de Santo António Frame the Programme

The Câmara Municipal de Lisboa opens the 2026 edition of Festas de Lisboa on Thursday 29 May with a free public concert, kicking off a month-long programme that runs through Sunday 28 June and slots together more than 40 initiatives across the city....
The Portugal Brief
Rede Expressos Opens Sete Rios Slot Allocation to Flixbus Seventy-Three Days After the Tribunal Administrativo Ruling — Operação Limitada Caveat Frames the 22 May Communication

Rede Expressos Opens Sete Rios Slot Allocation to Flixbus Seventy-Three Days After the Tribunal Administrativo Ruling — Operação Limitada Caveat Frames the 22 May Communication

Rede Expressos communicated Sete Rios slot windows to Flixbus on 22 May 2026 — 73 days after the Lisbon administrative tribunal ordered immediate access on 10 March. The operação limitada framing opens the terminal to Lisbon–Porto and Lisbon–Algarve competition on capacity-bounded terms.
The Portugal Brief
Fenprof Brings Thousands of Teachers Onto Lisbon's Streets on Saturday 16 May for 'Mais Respeito pela Escola Pública' March — Pay, Career-Length Backlog and Specialist Shortages Top the Demand List

Fenprof Brings Thousands of Teachers Onto Lisbon's Streets on Saturday 16 May for 'Mais Respeito pela Escola Pública' March — Pay, Career-Length Backlog and Specialist Shortages Top the Demand List

Fenprof brought thousands of teachers onto Lisbon's streets on Saturday for the 'Mais Respeito pela Escola Pública' march, demanding pay revision, the long-promised settlement of the missing six years, two months and 18 days of career time and a serious answer to specialist-teacher shortages.
The Portugal Brief
Portuguese Câmaras Split on 17 May Pride Flag — Porto, Coimbra, Almada, Seixal, Santarém and Funchal Mark IDAHOBIT With the Rainbow Hoist While Lisbon's Right-Wing Majority Keeps the Symbol Off the Paços do Concelho

Portuguese Câmaras Split on 17 May Pride Flag — Porto, Coimbra, Almada, Seixal, Santarém and Funchal Mark IDAHOBIT With the Rainbow Hoist While Lisbon's Right-Wing Majority Keeps the Symbol Off the Paços do Concelho

Six Portuguese câmaras mark 17 May IDAHOBIT with a rainbow flag-raising on Sunday — Porto leads at 17:00 on Praça Humberto Delgado. Lisbon's PSD-CDS-IL-Chega majority blocked a Bloco proposal on 6 May. Activists gather at the Câmara at 11:00.
The Portugal Brief