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The Lisboa Brief — Week of 23 May 2026: Festas de Lisboa Curtain Up, Moedas Calls EES 'Caos' at Humberto Delgado, Flixbus and Rede Expressos Trade Letters Over Sete Rios, and Praça Eduardo Mondlane Wins an Emergency Rehab

The Lisboa Brief — Week of 23 May 2026: Festas de Lisboa Curtain Up, Moedas Calls EES 'Caos' at Humberto Delgado, Flixbus and Rede Expressos Trade Letters Over Sete Rios, and Praça Eduardo Mondlane Wins an Emergency Rehab

Festas de Lisboa 2026 curtain up at Praça do Município under 'Somos Lisboa, Somos Europa'. Moedas warns of EES 'caos' at Humberto Delgado. Flixbus gets 48 of 96 Sete Rios slots and cries bad faith. Praça Eduardo Mondlane wins a 29-flat rehab and the 38th renda acessível opens.
The Portugal Brief
Ministério Público Charges Thirty-One Including a DGACCP Consular Officer Over a €21 Million Fraudulent-Legalisation Scheme — Seven Held in Pre-Trial Detention as PJ-UNCT Files Money-Laundering and Active-Corruption Counts

Ministério Público Charges Thirty-One Including a DGACCP Consular Officer Over a €21 Million Fraudulent-Legalisation Scheme — Seven Held in Pre-Trial Detention as PJ-UNCT Files Money-Laundering and Active-Corruption Counts

The Ministério Público announced an indictment on Friday 22 May 2026 charging 31 defendants — including an employee of the Direcção-Geral dos Assuntos Consulares e Comunidades Portuguesas (DGACCP) — over an organised scheme that fraudulently...
The Portugal Brief
Festas de Lisboa 2026 Run From 29 May to 28 June Under the 'Somos Lisboa, Somos Europa' Banner — Forty-Plus Initiatives, the Grand March on the Night of 12 June and the Sixteen Casamentos de Santo António Frame the Programme

Festas de Lisboa 2026 Run From 29 May to 28 June Under the 'Somos Lisboa, Somos Europa' Banner — Forty-Plus Initiatives, the Grand March on the Night of 12 June and the Sixteen Casamentos de Santo António Frame the Programme

The Câmara Municipal de Lisboa opens the 2026 edition of Festas de Lisboa on Thursday 29 May with a free public concert, kicking off a month-long programme that runs through Sunday 28 June and slots together more than 40 initiatives across the city....
The Portugal Brief
Certificados de Aforro Pull €537.6 Million in April 2026 — Twelve-Month High Drives Outstanding Stock to a Record €41.7 Billion as the Series F Per-Saver Ceiling Stepped Up From €100,000 to €250,000 on 24 April

Certificados de Aforro Pull €537.6 Million in April 2026 — Twelve-Month High Drives Outstanding Stock to a Record €41.7 Billion as the Series F Per-Saver Ceiling Stepped Up From €100,000 to €250,000 on 24 April

Portuguese households pushed a net €537.6 million into Certificados de Aforro (CA) in April 2026 — the strongest single-month inflow in the last twelve months and the nineteenth consecutive month of stock expansion — according to Banco de Portugal...
The Portugal Brief