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• Illegal immigration in Albufeira: Prosecutors charge shady businesses who gave 159 foreign nationals fake work documents 28/11/2025
  The Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) in Albufeira has charged two individuals and two companies with aiding in the act of illegal immigration. Authorities suspect the defendants issued fake employment contracts to foreign nationals seeking to regularise their status with Portugal’s immigration services, the Faro District Prosecutor’s Office announced.
• Portimão Port set for major upgrade in bid to attract more cruise ships: ‘Busiest year so far’ 28/11/2025
  The Port Authority of Sines and the Algarve (APS) is planning a significant expansion of Portimão Port’s capacity in a bid to attract more cruise traffic. The authority is preparing dredging operations, upgrades to the RO-RO quay, and improvements to land access routes.
• Chega, PS, and Government clash as controversial 2026 Budget gets thumbs-up from Parliament - everything you need to know 27/11/2025
  Portugal’s centre-right government has pushed its 2026 State Budget through parliament, surviving a stormy week of political acrimony and last-minute negotiations. The package passed with the Socialists’ abstention, while both Chega and the left-wing parties voted against.
• Portugal’s vanishing affordable housing: Supply of homes under €200,000 plunges 73% in five years 27/11/2025
  A new report from online property portal Idealista has revealed that access to affordable housing in Portugal is becoming increasingly difficult, with prices rising far faster than wages, and lower-cost options rapidly vanishing from the market.
• Meet Salina: Loggerhead turtle logs 9,200km journey after release from Algarve Rescue Centre 27/11/2025
  A loggerhead turtle named Salina, released back into the sea by Porto d’Abrigo, the Zoomarine Marine Species Rehabilitation Centre, in 2022 after a year of treatment, has travelled a staggering 9,203 kilometres since her return to the wild.

Portuguese Resident News

• Parliamentary staff complain CHEGA affecting their ‘mental health and physical integrity’ 30/11/2025
  Parliamentary staff have delivered a formal complaint to the secretary-general of parliament asking for urgent measures to ‘reign CHEGA MPs in’ from intimidating behaviour towards them. The syndicate of parliamentary The post Parliamentary staff complain CHEGA affecting their ‘mental health and physical integrity’ appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• Body of man discovered floating in Douro river, Porto 30/11/2025
  The body of a man was found this morning floating at the mouth of the Douro river in Porto, not far from the Douro Marina in Afurada, where a French The post Body of man discovered floating in Douro river, Porto appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• Portugal’s ‘Screaming Lord Sutch’ equivalent makes bid for presidency official in Leiria 30/11/2025
  One of the lighter moments in the campaign underway to select a new President of the Republic has taken place in Leiria this weekend, with the equivalent of a ‘Screaming The post Portugal’s ‘Screaming Lord Sutch’ equivalent makes bid for presidency official in Leiria appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• Outgoing president talks of ‘frustration’ over Portugal’s two million-plus in poverty 30/11/2025
  Outgoing President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has admitted his frustration at the fact that nothing over his 10-year tenure has managed to improve Portugal’s ‘poverty figures’. There The post Outgoing president talks of ‘frustration’ over Portugal’s two million-plus in poverty appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• Dead man “found on knees with bag around his head” 30/11/2025
  A man was found dead with a bag around his head in Lisbon’s Monsanto forest yesterday afternoon. The victim was “on his knees”, writes Correio da Manhã (not explaining how The post Dead man “found on knees with bag around his head” appeared first on Portugal Resident.