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Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro on Tuesday reiterated his government’s goal of strengthening the country's consular network and, along with Brazil, making Portuguese an official language of the United Nations.
The European Commission is taking Portugal to the EU Court of Justice over failures to combat pollution from industrial activities, the European Commission announced in a statement published on Thursday.
Israel should reconsider its decision to declare the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, "persona non grata" in agreement with the position taken on Wednesday by the Portuguese government, Portugal's President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said on Thursday.
The European Fiscal Board (EFB), the European Commission's independent advisory body, considers in its annual report that Portugal is an ‘exception’ in the European Union (EU) for having high debt and achieving a structural surplus.
Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro and Socialist Party leader Pedro Nuno Santos will meet again at the end of the day on Thursday as part of the negotiations on the 2025 budget, a source in Luís Montenegro's office told Lusa.
António Costa, Portugal's former prime minister and future president of the European Council, will meet Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Budapest on Tuesday, continuing a tour of EU capitals that began in Italy.
The number of applications for immigrant residency in Portugal has fallen by around 80%, Cabinet Minister António Leitão Amaro said on Monday, accusing the left of still not realising the mistake they have made.
Portugal will introduce a new system for the return and expulsion of migrants staying in the country without authorisation and create the National Foreigners and Borders Unit within the police, the government announced on Thursday.
The Leaders' Conference on Wednesday looked at a proposed timetable for the general debate on the 2025 budget, to be held on 30 and 31 October, with the final overall vote scheduled for 28 November.
Portugal's Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Pedro Duarte, reiterated on Tuesday that the government would not close the budget without knowing the proposals from the PS party, insisting that it had the "goodwill" to accept them.
Portugal’s public debt as a percentage of GDP is estimated to have fallen to 97.9%, a revision from the 99.1% calculated in April, according to data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE) on Monday.
The Portuguese Farmers' Confederation (CAP) has high expectations of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's choice for the new agriculture commissioner, Christophe Hansen, and is confident that he will pay attention to the sector, the group said on Thursday.
The European Commission will soon respond to the request of 20 member states, including Portugal, to postpone the deadline for submitting the medium-term structural budget plan until October, a source close to the process told Lusa on Thursday.
The area burned in mainland Portugal since Sunday now exceeds 106,000 hectares, with the government declaring a state of emergency and neighbouring Spain even sending its army to help fight the fires.
Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro expressed satisfaction with former finance minister Maria Luís Albuquerque being appointed to the 'crucial' financial services portfolio in the new von der Leyen Commission.
The wildfires that have been raging in mainland Portugal since Sunday, particularly in the central and northern regions, have left seven dead and at least 40 injured, affected dozens of properties and forced the closure of roads and motorways.
The possible revision of the law on wiretaps could lead to the collapse of some judicial investigations, Portugal's attorney general warned on Wednesday, stressing that the number of phone-tapping operations has decreased in recent years.
The Portuguese Business Confederation (CIP) on Tuesday praised the strategy outlined in Mario Draghi's long-awaited report on European competitiveness, and called for more public support for the private sector to boost investment.
Cohesion policy is essential for the competitiveness of the European Union and must not be seen as a "charity policy", the president of the European Committee of the Regions, Portugal's Vasco Cordeiro, warned on Monday.
Lisbon City Council will appeal a €1 million fine imposed on the municipality for sharing personal data on Russian anti-Putin activists with Moscow, the city council confirmed to Lusa on Tuesday.
President warns of 'deep crisis in European political systems'. The president of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, said on Sunday that there is an "end of a cycle" and warned of the "deep crisis" that European political systems are experiencing, arguing that it is necessary to "make ruptures."
The Portuguese government has proposed former finance minister Maria Luís Albuquerque as its choice for European commissioner, Prime Minister Luís Montenegro announced on Wednesday.