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• We're taking a festive break from Dec 20th 2025, returning on Jan 5th 2026 20/12/2025
  Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year!
• Faro Airport breaks 10 million passenger barrier for record 60th anniversary year: Britons remain biggest market 19/12/2025
  Faro Airport is set to end the year with its strongest performance ever, surpassing the 10 million passenger mark for the first time, a milestone that represents growth of 6% compared with last year.
• President Marcelo vetoes stricter Nationality Law over unconstitutionality: laws to be sent back to Parliament 19/12/2025
  The President of the Republic has vetoed the recently proposed batch of nationality law decrees, following rulings by the Constitutional Court that found parts of the legislation unconstitutional, and returned them to parliament.
• Police officers expose inhumane conditions for immigrant workers in rural Alentejo: Crumbling dirty housing, and criminally low pay 18/12/2025
  Inspectors from Portugal’s Judicial Police (PJ) presented their work at Beja Court yesterday, 17 December, describing how they had carried out surveillance of migrant workers’ movements as part of ‘Operation Espelho’, and conducted a search of a workers’ house in Serpa that they said was unfit for habitation.
• Defence Minister signs deal with Brazilian aerospace company for new Beja military aircraft factory 18/12/2025
  The Minister of National Defence and the president of the Brazilian company Embraer yesterday signed a letter of intent for the opening of a Super Tucano aircraft factory in Beja, during a ceremony marking the delivery of the first five aircraft.

Portuguese Resident News

• Around 100 sheep dead after flock strays on to railway line 28/12/2025
  A regional train between Coimbra-B and Caldas da Rainha ploughed into a flock of sheep early this morning, killing around 100. The awful scene greeted firefighters from Montemor-o-Velho who were The post Around 100 sheep dead after flock strays on to railway line appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• Almost 880,000 Portuguese homes consuming water ‘without any public control’ 28/12/2025
  News outlets today have seized on the details in an ERSAR (water regulator) report showing that almost 880,000 Portuguese households ‘consume water without public control’. This essentially means the homes The post Almost 880,000 Portuguese homes consuming water ‘without any public control’ appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• Building sector surprised by government bid to attract foreign companies 28/12/2025
  Builders, consultants and designers have expressed surprise at the government’s decision to encourage foreign companies to operate in Portugal in partnership with domestic firms, Carlos Mineiro Aires, executive director of The post Building sector surprised by government bid to attract foreign companies appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• President rubber-stamps proposal for ‘high performance obstetric centres’ 28/12/2025
  President Marcelo has today ‘enacted the creation of high performance centres in the field of obstetrics and gynecology, hoping that it will allow for systemic and lasting responses and that The post President rubber-stamps proposal for ‘high performance obstetric centres’ appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• Heated exchanges continue to sully already unprecedented presidential campaign 28/12/2025
  Portugal’s bitter presidential campaign – almost certainly the most bizarre in the country’s history of democracy – shows no sign of calming for the final three weeks of street rallies The post Heated exchanges continue to sully already unprecedented presidential campaign appeared first on Portugal Resident.