Portugal's inflation rate climbed to 2.1 percent in February 2026, up from 1.9 percent in January, placing the country slightly above the eurozone average and confirming a trend that is hitting household budgets where it hurts most: at the...
The escalating military conflict in the Persian Gulf is reshaping global tourism flows, and Portugal is emerging as one of the clearest beneficiaries. As airlines cancel routes through contested airspace and travellers abandon plans for destinations...
Foreign investors poured a record 3.9 billion euros into Portugal's property market in 2025, marking a 10 percent increase over the previous year and cementing real estate as the single largest magnet for international capital flowing into the...
Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, a dual Portuguese-Swedish scientist and professor at Stockholm's Karolinska Institutet, has been appointed to the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine — believed to be the first Portuguese national to serve in this...
Center-right mayors have issued a blunt warning to Lisbon: without political stability and administrative reform, Portugal risks squandering billions in European recovery funds while communities devastated by winter storms wait for help that moves...
The ripple effects of the Strait of Hormuz disruption have reached Portuguese petrol stations with punishing force. Diesel and gasoline are set to climb another 10 cents per liter starting Monday, pushing diesel toward 1.92 euros per liter and...
Portugal is considering a significant tightening of its citizenship laws, with proposals to increase the residency requirement for naturalization from 5 years to 10 years — a change that would affect tens of thousands of expats currently planning...
