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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

• Tragic details emerge about British child stabbed to death by mother’s ‘ex’ 26/12/2025
  Further heartbreaking details have emerged about British child Alfie Hallett, 13, stabbed to death by his mother’s ‘ex’ who then went on to ‘commit suicide’ by provoking a gas explosion The post Tragic details emerge about British child stabbed to death by mother’s ‘ex’ appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• Autumn rains see Algarve dams at “best ever levels” 26/12/2025
  Following the ever-changing predictions, this year’s autumn rains have left dams in the Algarve at their “best ever levels”. Even if it doesn’t rain any more this winter (which is The post Autumn rains see Algarve dams at “best ever levels” appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• Portuguese man shot by U.S. immigration agents in raid on outskirts of Baltimore 26/12/2025
  A Portuguese man ‘living illegally’ in the United States for the last 17 years was shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Christmas Eve after “refusing to stop The post Portuguese man shot by U.S. immigration agents in raid on outskirts of Baltimore appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• PJ police track down 19-year-old German suspected of knifing family to death in Cape Verde 26/12/2025
  Portugal’s PJ judicial police managed to track down a young German who fled to Lisbon from Cape Verde after allegedly knifing his family to death on Tuesday. In a statement, The post PJ police track down 19-year-old German suspected of knifing family to death in Cape Verde appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• Presidential campaign: CHEGA leader appeals ruling over ‘gypsy billboards’ 26/12/2025
  As the country’s ‘presidential race’ enters the final strait, the reality is that the presence of CHEGA leader André Ventura has helped make it remarkably unprecedented. Never before has the The post Presidential campaign: CHEGA leader appeals ruling over ‘gypsy billboards’ appeared first on Portugal Resident.