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SIRP secretary-general Vítor Sereno told a 12 June 2026 parliamentary hearing the State 'cannot remain at a disadvantage' and asked for a constitutional revision letting SIS and SIED access mobile phone metadata of terrorism and organised crime suspects.
The Assembleia da República (Assembly of the Republic) elected four new judges to the Tribunal Constitucional (Constitutional Court) on 12 June 2026 with 176 votes — and for the first time since the court was set up in 1983, Chega has placed a judge on the bench.
Livre and the Bloco de Esquerda tabled separate alternative texts to the Government's Prestação Social Única (Unified Social Benefit, PSU) at the Assembleia da República (Parliament) on Monday 8 June, with both parties stripping out the trabalho...
ECFR's May 1-19 survey of 18,000 across 15 European countries puts Portugal first at 59% support for common EU debt to finance defense — ahead of Denmark, the Netherlands and Spain. Backing for a bigger budget to cut US reliance rises to 42% from 26% a year ago.
The official Dia de Portugal, de Camões e das Comunidades Portuguesas (Day of Portugal, Camões and the Portuguese Communities) anchors in Angra do Heroísmo on Wednesday 10 June, with the formal military and civic ceremony on the parade ground at the...
The Tribunal de Contas (Court of Audit) released on Tuesday 9 June 2026 a long-awaited audit of the Plano Lisboa 65+ — the municipal health-and-wellbeing programme Mayor Carlos Moedas launched at the Paços do Concelho on 20 October 2022...
The European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) clocks Portugal's 2025 asylum requests at 1,763 — a 37% drop on 2,797 in 2024 — with Colombia (14%), China (10%) and Angola (9%) topping origins, even as the pending caseload doubles to 8,730 by December.
