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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

• Music and party spirit as Carvoeiro welcomes the New Year 29/12/2025
  Music, dancing and celebration will take centre stage at Carvoeiro’s New Year’s Eve party, as the beach square prepares to welcome revellers into 2026. The festivities begin at 10.30pm with The post Music and party spirit as Carvoeiro welcomes the New Year appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• Fifteen people have already died on Portugal’s roads this Christmas 29/12/2025
  Already 15 people have died on Portugal’s roads over the 2025 festive season. There is still New Year to go – and police are appealing to everyone to be sensible: The post Fifteen people have already died on Portugal’s roads this Christmas appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• Support for purchase of electric vehicles opens today 29/12/2025
  Applications for the new state subsidy for the purchase of electric vehicles – retroactive to January 1, 2025 – can be submitted from today via the Environmental Fund website. The The post Support for purchase of electric vehicles opens today appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• Gouveia e Melo gets a taste of ‘political karma’ 29/12/2025
  Days after the explosive ‘final debate’ of the presidential campaign – the moment Gouveia e Melo ‘turned the proverbial screws’ on PSD adversary Luís Marques Mendes – Sábado has broken The post Gouveia e Melo gets a taste of ‘political karma’ appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• Algarve Senior Bikers venture on a winter tour to Alentejo and Andalusia 29/12/2025
  The ASB winter tour started at Pulo do Lobo (Wolf’s Leap), a natural gorge located in the Vale do Guadiana Natural Park, north of Mértola. There, a group of four The post Algarve Senior Bikers venture on a winter tour to Alentejo and Andalusia appeared first on Portugal Resident.