LISBON, Sept 7 (Reuters) - The Portuguese government on Thursday will extend the zero rate of value-added tax (VAT) on basic food staples by two months to the end of…
LISBON (Reuters) - More than 1,100 firefighters and 14 water-carrying aircraft battled a wildfire in central Portugal's Castelo Branco area as civil protection authorities said hot, windy conditions meant it…
By Philip Pullella and Catarina Demony LISBON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Pope Francis closed an international festival of Catholic Youth on Sunday with a huge outdoor Mass and his own…
Pope Francis meets pilgrims during a meeting with representatives of some charity centres at Centro Paroquial de Serafin, in Lisbon, Portugal. Pope Francis visited a Church-run social centre in a…
By Catarina Demony and Philip Pullella LISBON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Pope Francis promised on Wednesday to continue to "stir things up" in the Catholic Church as he moves…
By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira LISBON, July 29 (Reuters) - Born in one of the most violent slums in Rio de Janeiro, Caué Santos could have never imagined that…
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal banned tourist boats from approaching pods of orcas and issued instructions on what to do when approached by the so-called killer whales after a series of…
British airline easyJet has cancelled 350 flights arriving to or departing from Portugal due to a five-day cabin staff strike scheduled for later this month, the SNPVAC union of civil…
SILVES, Portugal (Reuters) - Police wrapped up the latest search effort in the 16-year-old hunt for missing British girl Madeleine McCann after collecting unspecified samples by a reservoir in Portugal,…
SILVES, Portugal, May 24 (Reuters) - Police with sniffer dogs on Wednesday resumed a search at a remote reservoir in Portugal for possible evidence linking a German suspect to the…
Portuguese police will on Tuesday search a reservoir inland from where British three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007, authorities said, in the first formal development in the case in Portugal in several…
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's conservative President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has signed a bill decriminialising euthanasia into law in the Catholic-majority country after parliament on Friday overturned the last of…
LISBON (Reuters) - Drought spread across almost all of mainland Portugal during an unusually hot and dry April, the meteorology agency IPMA said , and officials have requested aid from…
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's government on Thursday presented legislation to extend a ban on smoking to outdoor areas including covered terraces and to restrict tobacco sales, as it hopes to…
By Sergio Goncalves and Andrei Khalip LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese opposition parties called on the president on Wednesday to use his power to dissolve parliament over a growing scandal around…
LISBON (Reuters) - The number of foreign tourists visiting Portugal surpassed 2.8 million from January through March, making it the best first quarter on record despite high global inflation and…
By Mariano Valladolid CORDOBA, Spain (Reuters) - Mainland Spain and Portugal have broken temperature records for April, as the Iberian neighbours swelter in an early-season heatwave that has exacerbated a…
LISBON, April 30 (Reuters) - A man shot three people dead and then committed suicide on Sunday in the Portuguese city of Setubal, about 45 km (28 miles) south of…
By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira LISBON (Reuters) - Waving flags and holding photographs depicting conflict atrocities, Ukrainians gathered outside the Brazilian embassy in Lisbon on Friday to protest recent…
By Sergio Goncalves LISBON, April 17 (Reuters) - Portugal's government on Monday raised its 2023 economic growth forecast to 1.8% from 1.3% predicted in November, still a sharp slowdown compared…
The material seized during an operation carried out by Spain' National Police and Portugal's Judicial Police sits on a table during a press conference in Madrid, Spain, 13 April 2023.…
LISBON, April 7 (Reuters) - Portuguese party Chega will hold a world summit in Lisbon with several far-right party leaders in May, including former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and Italian…
LISBON, April 1 (Reuters) - Thousands of people took to the streets of Lisbon and other cities across Portugal on Saturday in protest against soaring rents and house prices at…
LISBON, March 31 (Reuters) - Portuguese consumer prices rose 7.4% year-on-year in March, at a slower pace than the 8.2% increase in the previous month, flash data released by the…
March 30 (Reuters) - Portugal's monthly unemployment rate fell to 6.8% in February from a revised reading of 7.0% in January, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said in its flash…
LISBON, March 24 (Reuters) - Porugal's government plans to stop charging the value-added tax on essential food products, now at 6%, as part of new measures aimed at helping vulnerable…
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's plan to end its golden visa scheme for investors, yet to be officially approved, has led to a rush in applications according to advisory firms who…
By Sergio Goncalves LISBON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Portuguese prosecutors have launched an investigation into a complex leasing deal for 53 Airbus AIR.PA aircraft by flag carrier TAP in 2015, and two people familiar…
By Patricia Vicente Rua and Catarina Demony LISBON, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Portugal announced on Thursday a hefty package of measures to tackle a housing crisis, including the end of…
More than 100 priests suspected of child sexual abuse remain active in church roles in Portugal, according to the head of a commission investigating the issue. The commission, which started…
At least 4,815 children were sexually abused by members of the Portuguese Catholic Church - mostly priests - over the past 70 years, a report by the commission investigating the…
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's government said future officials would from now on have to answer a questionnaire before they are appointed to prove they are fit for office after a…
MADRID, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Portuguese renewable energy provider EDP Renovaveis , said on Monday it will take legal action against newly created taxes on energy in Poland and Romania.…
The Maltese, Dutch and Portuguese governments on Friday joined a growing number of nations requiring air passengers arriving from China to show a negative COVID-19 test upon entry. On Friday,…
Portuguese PM Antonio Costa has announced a mini-reshuffle in his Cabinet after after a scandal related to payments at a national airline that 'shocked' the nation. In the midst of…
LISBON, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Portugal's newly-appointed head of Treasury has stepped down, the finance ministry said, her resignation following a public backlash over a hefty severance pay she had…
LISBON (Reuters) - Heavy rain battered the Portuguese capital on Tuesday, flooding tunnels, sweeping away cars and forcing authorities to suspend bus and tram services and close some main roads. …
By Catarina Demony LISBON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Investments through Portugal's "golden visa", which gives wealthy foreigners residence rights, jumped nearly 50% last month, data showed on Sunday, as the government considers…
By Sergio Goncalves and Aislinn Laing LISBON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - EU states must "work quicker and with stronger determination" to reach agreement to intervene in energy markets and support…
LISBON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Portugal's government has decreed that banks will have to renegotiate mortgages of up to 300,000 euros ($293,700) for the most indebted families and offer them…
LISBON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Portuguese consumer prices rose 10.2% year-on-year in October, at their fastest pace since May 1992 and up from 9.3% in the previous month, flash data…
Pilgrims participate in the Candlelight Procession in the Sanctuary of Fatima in the Shrine of Fatima, Portugal, on Wednesday evening, during the international pilgrimage on 12 and 13 October. Via…
LISBON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Portuguese consumer prices rose 9.3% year-on-year in September, the fastest pace since October 1992, up from 8.9% a month earlier, flash data from National Statistics…
(Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights ruled on against the parents of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, saying that Portugal had given them a fair hearing in their…
Portugal's government on Monday rolled out additional measures worth 2.4 billion euros ($2.38 billion) to help families cope with soaring inflation, following similar announcements in other European countries in recent weeks.…
LISBON (Reuters) - The number of foreign tourists visiting Portugal slightly surpassed pre-pandemic levels in July for the first time since the end of most COVID-19 restrictions, data from the…
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal announced it would speed up granting visas to citizens of other Portuguese-speaking countries, including Angola and Brazil, as it seeks to tackle a labour shortage. The…
LISBON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Around 60 flights were cancelled at Lisbon airport on Sunday, the last day of a strike by handling workers that has brought more disruption to summer travel…
LISBON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Employees of Portugal's airport handling company Portway began a three-day strike on Friday at its main airports in Lisbon, Porto, Faro and Funchal, forcing cancellations…
LISBON, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Facing an unprecedented drought, Portugal's government recommended 43 municipalities temporarily increase water prices for their biggest consumers and suspend street-cleaning and watering in public parks…
MADRID, (Reuters) - Smoke from a huge wildfire in central Portugal enveloped skyscrapers known as the "Four Towers" in Madrid 400 km (250 miles) away, and residents of the Spanish…
Portugal's civil aviation workers are threatening to go on a three-day strike in late August, accusing the conglomerate that operates the country's biggest airports of failing to increase wages and…
LISBON,(Reuters) - Portugal will accelerate construction of solar parks to replace gas-fired electricity generation and hit an EU target to cut gas use, Energy Secretary Joao Galamba said this week. With Europe…
Portuguese prosecutors said they have launched 10 inquiries into alleged child sexual abuse by Catholic Church clergy, the first such move since a commission was created seven months ago to…
Scientists have stumbled upon a series of seemingly human-made organised holes on the Atlantic Ocean floor whose origins remain a mystery. The “perfectly aligned” holes were discovered on 23 July…
Madrid/Athens (dpa) - A fire that broke out on the Spanish island of Tenerife this week was still raging on Sunday and has now destroyed more than 2,150 hectares, the…
Facing an unprecedented drought, Portugal will cut irrigation of golf courses and green spaces in its tourism-dependent Algarve region to avert water rationing for human consumption, the country's environment minister…
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal is analysing the citizenship applications of two Russian oligarchs - one of whom is under U.S. sanctions, the government said late on Friday, as a law…