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Portugal finds itself at the centre of an escalating geopolitical crisis after it emerged that the Lajes Air Base in the Azores played a logistical role in the United States' joint military operation with Israel against Iran, codenamed "Epic Fury."...
With the memory of last year's devastating wildfire season still raw, Portugal's government is accelerating efforts to clear millions of downed trees from storm-ravaged forests before summer arrives -- and it is enlisting an unconventional workforce...
Portugal's largest trade union federation, the CGTP, is mobilising for mass demonstrations in Lisbon and Porto on Saturday, March 1, in what organisers describe as the most significant labour protest since the general strike that shook the country...
The Assembly of the Republic voted down a bill from Iniciativa Liberal that would have distributed AIMA-related court cases across Portugal's administrative courts, rather than concentrating them exclusively in the Lisbon Administrative Court. The...
The European Union will decide on 25 March which city will host the headquarters of its new European Union Customs Authority (EUCA), and Porto is among nine candidates vying for the prize. The decision, to be taken jointly by the EU Council and the...
Less than five months after local elections in which its best result was winning the 60th-largest municipality in the country, Chega has manoeuvred itself into governing coalitions in four of Portugal's five biggest cities. The rapid expansion of...
Prime Minister Luis Montenegro has acknowledged that financing the country's ambitious post-storm recovery programme may require running budget deficits and increasing public debt -- a significant shift in rhetoric from a government that has made...
