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The Week em Breve Aug 11 to 17
Welcome to the Week em Breve, a wrap-up of important Portuguese news to keep you up to date and in the know. Wildfires continue raging across Portugal, state of alert extended again Over 3,600 firefighters were battling wildfires across the country as of Monday morning, with five fires still active in the districts of Bragança, Guarda, Castelo Branco, and Viseu, officials said, according to…
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Digital nomads: 'I feel that there are three worlds in Lisbon: that of the Portuguese, that of rich foreigners, and that of poor immigrants' | Expresso
“Expresso spoke to some of these immigrants who call themselves ‘expats’, who came after the sun and quality of life but ended up with some weight on their conscience,” the publication wrote (in Portuguese, behind paywall). Related: ‘There’s an arrogance to the way they move around the city’: is it time for digital nomads like me to leave Lisbon? | The Guardian
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‘There’s an arrogance to the way they move around the city’: is it time for digital nomads like me to leave Lisbon?
Alex Holder, a London transplant to Lisbon who co-founded the excellent English-language bookshop Salted Books in Santos — all while raising a couple of kids and working several other gigs to boot — gives a brutally honest assessment of a certain kind of expat here (read: earning handsomely enough to afford private schools and avoid public transport). Is the tide turning on the digital nomad…
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The Week em Breve July 7 to 13
Welcome to the Week em Breve, a wrap-up of important Portuguese news to keep you up to date and in the know. Love for sale: getting residency through a paid marriage The Judicial Police (Polícia Judiciária – PJ) says it has uncovered a marriage-of-convenience network that facilitated at least 60 marriages between foreigners and Portuguese brides since the end of 2023 for the purpose of…
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The Week em Breve June 16 to 22
Welcome to the Week em Breve, a wrap-up of important Portuguese news to keep you up to date and in the know. Police Arrest Six Suspected Neo-Nazis, Including Police Officer Polícia Judiciária (PJ) arrested six suspected neo-nazis who are part of Movimento Armilar Lusitano, considered an armed militia, and seized explosives and firearms, including 3D-printed guns as well as four printers to make…
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Lisbon's Top Museums for Free: The When and How
Lisbon used to be cheap, including its museums, and some were free every single day, for everyone. That wonderful time has passed for most of us. You can still visit some for free if you’re a member, under 12, or a student, and in some cases if you’re unemployed, or with the tourist-oriented Lisboa Card, which as of June 2025 started at €31 for an adult 24-hour pass. But even without it, you…
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The week em Breve May 5 to 11
Portuguese Train Strike Goes into Sixth Day Ahead of Elections Commuting will be one more issue on the minds of Portuguese voters as they head into legislative elections on Sunday, May 18. The employees of the nation’s state-owned railway operator Comboios de Portugal (CP) have been on strike since May 7, demanding wages that keep up with cost of living increases, according to news reports.…
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The Week em Breve April 28 to May 4
Welcome to the Week em Breve, a wrap-up of important Portuguese news to keep you up to date and in the know. Historic blackout hits Portugal and Spain On April 28, power went down across the Iberian Peninsula, causing disruptions to transport, communications, and businesses across Portugal and Spain. In Lisbon, the blackout lasted about 10 hours and caused the metro, trains, and trams to shut…
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Lisbon Blackout 2025, Cais do Sodré Style, in Photos
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The Week em Breve April 21 to 27
Welcome to the Week em Breve, a wrap-up of important Portuguese news to keep you up to date and in the know. Thousands gather for the Carnation Revolution parade in Lisbon On Friday, Lisboetas came out on the streets to commemorate April 25, 1974, marking the end of the authoritarian right-wing Estado Novo regime. This year, a small number of far-right demonstrators showed up at Largo de São…
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The Week em Breve April 14 to 20
Welcome to the Week em Breve, a wrap-up of important Portuguese news to keep you up to date and in the know. Immigration services to give preference to lawyers Got a lawyer to help you with that residency appointment? Apparently, you’ll get preferential treatment if you do, according to Lusa. The Portuguese Bar Association (Ordem dos Advogados – OA) and the Agency of Migration, Integration,…
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The Lisbon Flight Bag: Surviving 72-Hour Emergencies, and More
Editors’ note: no affiliate links here. If you’d like to support our independent work, you can make a one-time or recurring donation! A few ongoing and imminent events in Europe — a war in Ukraine, devastating floods, earthquakes, the impending Terminator uprising, et al — have many EU governments eager to raise the preparedness of their citizenry. Sweden has issued a booklet, as did Finland,…
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The Week em Breve March 24 to 30
Welcome to the Week em Breve, a wrap-up of important Portuguese news to keep you up to date and in the know. Crime statistics are less bad The number of registered criminal offenses in Lisbon went down 7.6% last year, and 4.6% in Portugal overall, according to the 2024 Annual Internal Security Report (Relatório Anual de Segurança Interna de 2024 – RASI) cited by Público. While that may seem…
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Why Brits are now moving to Portugal instead of Spain | iPaper
In case you didn’t know, iPaper spoke to some foreigners to confirm: more English is spoken here, the taxes on foreigners are gentler, and people are nicer! Read on if you must.
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This Massachusetts neighborhood feels more Portuguese than Portugal itself
“In Fall River, Massachusetts, a remarkable cultural phenomenon has transformed this former textile mill city into what many consider America’s most authentic Portuguese community,” according to an article on World Day.
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The Week em Breve Feb 10 to 16
Welcome to the Week em Breve, a wrap-up of important Portuguese news to keep you up to date and in the know. Faster times for golden visas Those rich enough to have bought their way into Portuguese residency have something to celebrate: processing times are speeding up for golden visa applicants, many of whom have had to wait for months and even years to get their residency status based on…
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The Week em Breve Jan 20 to Jan 26
Welcome to the Week em Breve, a wrap-up of important Portuguese news to keep you up to date and in the know. Affordable housing crisis solved: convert rural land to residential The Portuguese parliament shrewdly steered the country out of its affordable housing crisis on Friday when it voted to allow municipalities to make more land available for development. What kind of land? Rural land — a…
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