With NATO's 24-26 June Hague summit pressing allies toward a 5%-of-GDP defence-spending pledge, Portugal's posture sits inside the LPM 2024-2033 envelope, the OE2027 cativações carve-out and Nuno Melo's repeated rejection of a separate European army track.
Defence Minister Nuno Melo used a Sunday Jornal de Notícias and TSF interview to reject a European army and reaffirm NATO as Portugal's primary defensive frame — Spain's push for a continental force has now been publicly dismissed by Brussels' top diplomat as well.
TEKEVER opens a Tallinn office and names Tuuli Vors as Baltic Market Lead while deploying crews into Spring Storm 2026 — the Estonian Defence Forces' largest annual exercise, fielding 12,000-plus Allied troops. Tallinn joins a hub map running Lisbon, Ukraine, Bristol, Swindon and North Carolina.
Lockheed Martin tells ECO on Thursday 14 May that 16 candidate industrial projects, 21 Portuguese beneficiaries and 5 universities sit inside the F-35 engagement architecture. Letter of Request from Lisbon is still the gating procedural step toward a €5.5 billion, 27-aircraft Air Force renewal.
Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel rejects Marco Rubio's Fox News claim that Portugal 'said yes before we even asked' on Lajes for Operação Fúria Épica. MNE says the formal pedido for equipment transit, including MQ-9 Reapers, only arrived after the 28 February strikes on Iran began.
Former President of the Republic Aníbal Cavaco Silva used a long-form interview broadcast by Renascença on Wednesday evening 13 May 2026 — and amplified across the Portuguese press on Thursday morning 14 May — to argue for the construction of an...
The president of the Açores regional government, José Manuel Bolieiro, walked into the first Conferência de Regiões in Ponta Delgada on Monday 12 May 2026 and answered the obvious question that has hung over the Lajes file since the United States...
