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• Albufeira: Bird flu outbreak prompts ban on poultry markets and mandatory confinement of domestic birds 05/12/2025
  Portugal’s Directorate-General for Food and Veterinary Affairs (DGAV) has confirmed a case of bird flu in Albufeira, along with two additional outbreaks on commercial farms in the municipality of Torres Vedras, in the district of Lisbon.
• ‘Unacceptable’: Portimão Hospital faces weekend closure of an A&E unit amidst staff shortages 05/12/2025
  Across the country, four Obstetrics and Gynaecology A&E units are to close on Saturday, and three on Sunday, Portugal’s National Health Service has warned.
• Ticking time bomb: A quarter of Algarve police officers to retire in the next five years 04/12/2025
  The PSP (Public Security Police) in the Algarve expects more than 200 officers to leave the force by 2030, around a quarter of its total manpower, amid an ageing workforce and longstanding staff shortages.
• Outcry as eight Portuguese districts set to lose print newspapers overnight, risking so-called ‘news deserts’ 04/12/2025
  The Left Bloc (BE) on Thursday, 4 December, pressed the Government for answers following a report in the Correio da Manhã newspaper that eight districts risk being left without print newspapers as early as next month, largely due to low purchases of papers over the counter.
• Algarve fills its dams thanks to recent rainstorms: Storm Claudia has brought ‘highest levels in past 10 years’ 03/12/2025
  The Algarve’s reservoirs are now at 72% capacity, ensuring enough water for urban consumption for the next three to four years, José Pimenta Machado, president of the Portuguese Environment Agency, said today.

Portuguese Resident News

• Russia rescinds military accords with Portugal, France and Canada 07/12/2025
  Russia has terminated decades-old military cooperation agreements with Portugal, France and Canada as tensions increase over EU proposals to use frozen Russian assets to provide loans to Ukraine. The agreement The post Russia rescinds military accords with Portugal, France and Canada appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• PM suddenly describes ‘minimum wage of €1600’ as country hurtles towards general strike 07/12/2025
  Prime Minister and PSD president Luís Montenegro has raised eyebrows again this weekend by suddenly throwing new promises into the arena. As the country hurtles towards a general strike on The post PM suddenly describes ‘minimum wage of €1600’ as country hurtles towards general strike appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• Algarve-based INEM emergency medical helicopter inoperational 07/12/2025
  Making the best of yet another hitch in INEM medical emergency cover, the entity has announced that the Algarve-based helicopter in Loulé is “temporarily inoperable” – ‘while assuring that the The post Algarve-based INEM emergency medical helicopter inoperational appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• ‘Tis the season for the infamous wine ‘stache, crimson mouth and the tell-tale sign of a good glass of wine!  07/12/2025
  Or you’re enjoying yourself and your Malbec, and then you go to immortalize the moment in a photo, and flash! You look like a vampire! Your mouth, teeth, and lips The post ‘Tis the season for the infamous wine ‘stache, crimson mouth and the tell-tale sign of a good glass of wine!  appeared first on […]
• Portuguese businessman at centre of €37 million golden visa pyramid-scheme 06/12/2025
  Público reports on how a Portuguese businessman “diverted tens of millions of euros from ‘golden visa’ investors by selling apartments that did not exist and promising “impossible returns” for their The post Portuguese businessman at centre of €37 million golden visa pyramid-scheme appeared first on Portugal Resident.