News, culture, and events from Portugal's capital city.
Thousands marched in Lisbon and Porto on Saturday, a week after the camps were cleared. The Ombudsman's torture-prevention team was present, and by early evening the question was whether tents would go up again for the night.
Your weekly roundup from the capital: police clear the Rossio camp a second time, both Friday strikes are called off, the Red Line to Alcântara gets new funding, and only accredited taxis get into the airport rank from Tuesday.
The cabinet has rescheduled the Red Line extension's 405.4 million euros, now to be paid by Metro loans from the EIB and Sustentável 2030 after it left the PRR. Why the Court of Auditors has held up the works, and what comes next.
Lisbon's council has voted to redraw its urban rehabilitation area from 1 January 2027, adding districts built up since 2012. Livre calls it a blank cheque for 6,450 hectares. What ARU status can mean for owners, and what the municipal assembly still has to do.
Lisbon City Council approved a deal with developer SGAL that keeps plots worth 46 million euros in the Alta de Lisboa in public hands for affordable housing. No number of homes or timetable is set yet; a 14-home affordable rent draw in Benfica closes on 5 November.
The two largest PSP and GNR bodies hold a national demonstration in Lisbon this evening, demanding new pay scales, career reviews and the rest of the 2024 agreement. The Government points to a risk supplement now worth 400 euros a month and talks due in November.
Carris's insurer told a Lisbon court the sum sought by a victim's family is excessive, that courts award 50,000 euros to 90,000, euros and that the case should wait for the criminal inquiry. The family's lawyer calls it an admission.
