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Politics

Parliament's Blackout Working Group Says CORGOV Is Beyond Its Reach — Confidentiality Wall Stops MPs Scrutinising the Government's Crisis-Response Cell on the Eve of the One-Year Anniversary

Parliament's apagão working group finalised a draft report this weekend that admits CORGOV — the Government's new crisis-response cell created after the 28 April 2025 blackout — is beyond MPs' reach because of confidentiality. The vote lands Tuesday, exactly one year after the lights went out.

26 April 2026

Immigration

AIMA's Sociocultural Mediation Envelope Bumped to €28 Million for Three Years — Government Locks In the 16-Partnership Network That Replaces the Estrutura de Missão

The Conselho de Ministros on Thursday, 23 April 2026, approved a Resolution that quietly does one of the most consequential things this Government can do for the day-to-day immigrant experience in Portugal: it puts more money into the people who...

25 April 2026

Politics

Portugal's Transparency Watchdog Verified Just 883 of 8,620 Politician Declarations in Two Years — Ana Raquel Moniz Says EpT Needs 11 More Staff to Police 10% Backlog

EpT's first full activity report shows just 883 of 8,620 declarations filed by political office-holders between March 2024 and December 2025 were verified — a 10.24% rate. President Ana Raquel Moniz says she needs 11 more staff.

25 April 2026

Culture

'Festas Sem Abril' — 600 Lisbon Cultural Agents Petition Against EGEAC's Hollowed-Out 25 Abril Programme as Moedas Calls It a Political Attack on Holiday Eve

Lisbon enters its 52nd 25 de Abril with a row over what the city is — and is not — doing to mark it. Around 600 cultural agents have put their names to a petition under the title “Festas de Abril sem Abril” — “April Festivals...

25 April 2026

Politics

Council of Ministers Greenlights ITV Overhaul — New Decree-Law Reshapes Inspection-Centre Network, Strengthens IMT Sanctions and Locks In the March 2026 Rule That Lets Recall-Stalled Cars Fail Automatically

The Conselho de Ministros communiqué of 23 April 2026 contains a decree-law that has been quietly working its way through the inter-ministerial circuit since the autumn: a complete overhaul of the legal framework governing periodic technical...

25 April 2026

News

Montenegro Draws a Red Line at the Cyprus Summit — Portugal Will Mount 'Firm and Well-Founded Opposition' to a 2028-2034 EU Budget That Cuts Cohesion 14% While Lisbon Sits at 76.5% of the EU Average

PM Luís Montenegro warned EU leaders in Cyprus that Portugal would oppose the next MFF if it abandons cohesion. The Commission's proposal cuts Portugal's allocation by around 14% while GNI per capita sits at 76.5% of the EU average — below the 90% Treaty threshold.

25 April 2026

News

Seguro's Carnation Revolution Address Puts the Social State on Notice — President Tells Parliament the Designs of the Constitution Cannot Stay 'Dead Letters' as the SNS Wobbles

Seguro's debut Carnation Revolution address at the Assembleia da República pledged to work with other sovereign organs so 'the designs of the social state are not dead letters', placing the SNS rescue at the centre of his presidency.

25 April 2026