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Banco de Portugal's June Boletim Económico Flips Portugal's Demographic-vs-Supply Housing Gap to Surplus for the First Time in 11 Years — 300,000-Unit Decade Deficit, 26,700 Completions and the Immigration Cut Frame the Reset

Banco de Portugal's June Boletim Económico Flips Portugal's Demographic-vs-Supply Housing Gap to Surplus for the First Time in 11 Years — 300,000-Unit Decade Deficit, 26,700 Completions and the Immigration Cut Frame the Reset

The Banco de Portugal (Bank of Portugal, BdP) Boletim Económico — Junho 2026 (June 2026 Economic Bulletin), published Sunday 15 June, carries a thematic study titled Housing in Portugal: determinants of supply and dynamics of prices and rents that...
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026 Pins Portugal at 51% News Trust and the Highest TV-News Reach of 48 Markets — While Online-News Paywall Adoption Slides to 8% and News Avoidance Doubles From 2017

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026 Pins Portugal at 51% News Trust and the Highest TV-News Reach of 48 Markets — While Online-News Paywall Adoption Slides to 8% and News Avoidance Doubles From 2017

Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2026 — authored for Portugal by OberCom / ISCTE — pegs Portuguese news trust at 51%, the highest TV-news reach of 48 markets at 70%, news avoidance at 37% (double 2017), AI-news confidence at 24% and online-news payment at just 8%.
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PS Hauls Ministro da Presidência Leitão Amaro to Parliament Over Lei 23/2026 Mecanismo de Continuidade Territorial — Accuses Government of 'Trumpismo' Eight Days Into the New Subsídio de Mobilidade Regime

PS Hauls Ministro da Presidência Leitão Amaro to Parliament Over Lei 23/2026 Mecanismo de Continuidade Territorial — Accuses Government of 'Trumpismo' Eight Days Into the New Subsídio de Mobilidade Regime

PS filed an Assembleia da República hearing request for Ministro da Presidência António Leitão Amaro on 14 June over Lei 23/2026 — the Mecanismo de Continuidade Territorial — accusing the Government of 'trumpismo' for backtracking on the no-ceiling air-subsidy rule eight days into the new regime.
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Portugal Misses the 7 June Transposition Deadline on the EU Pay Transparency Directive 2023/970 — Ministério do Trabalho's 30 March Draft Sits Open as the Job-Ad Pay-Band Rule and Reversed Burden of Proof Bind Anyway

Portugal Misses the 7 June Transposition Deadline on the EU Pay Transparency Directive 2023/970 — Ministério do Trabalho's 30 March Draft Sits Open as the Job-Ad Pay-Band Rule and Reversed Burden of Proof Bind Anyway

Portugal sat out the 7 June 2026 transposition deadline on European Union Directive 2023/970 (the Pay Transparency Directive / Diretiva da Transparência Salarial) without publishing a Decreto-Lei in the Diário da República. The Ministério do...
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Ponta Delgada Capital Portuguesa da Cultura Loses Half Its €5.3 Million Envelope After Turismo de Portugal Walks and Chega + Movimento PDL Para Todos Block the €2 Million Câmara Top-Up

Ponta Delgada Capital Portuguesa da Cultura Loses Half Its €5.3 Million Envelope After Turismo de Portugal Walks and Chega + Movimento PDL Para Todos Block the €2 Million Câmara Top-Up

PDL26 — Ponta Delgada's year as Capital Portuguesa da Cultura — has lost €2.3M of its original €5.3M envelope after Turismo de Portugal pulled investment, EU sources receded and Chega + Movimento PDL Para Todos blocked a €2M Câmara Municipal top-up, leaving the operating budget around €3M.
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