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• Portimão: 50-year-old arsonist charged after causing terror with four forest fires over the summer 15/12/2025
  The Portimão Public Prosecutor’s Office has charged a 50-year-old man with four counts of forest arson committed in Monchique, Bensafrim, and the area surrounding the Algarve International Autodrome. The defendant will stand trial before a panel of judges.
• Guadiana Valley: Landmark conservation success as Iberian lynx numbers in the Algarve hit record high 15/12/2025
  Fieldwork carried out in the Algarve’s Guadiana Valley has identified a record number of Iberian lynx in the wild, confirming the continued recovery of the species in Portugal, it was announced today.
• Municipal leaders clash with prime-minister over stalled regionalisation efforts, calling Portugal an ‘unequal and unbalanced’ country 15/12/2025
  The Prime Minister said today that regionalisation will not be addressed during the current parliamentary term, arguing that “the timing is inadequate and inopportune” and that priority must be given to “deepening the decentralisation process already under way”.
• Brazilian woman visiting Algarve missing for days as questions mount over strange disappearance 15/12/2025
  Lucinete Freitas, 55, a resident of the central Portuguese city of Amadora, has been missing for more than a week after last speaking to her family on the night of 5 December. 
• 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.

Portuguese Resident News

• Home is where the heart is… 15/12/2025
  For a lot of residents in the Algarve, home is here in Portugal. For others, it is a little further away. “We have a large mix of members. Some of The post Home is where the heart is… appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• ATLANTICO Europa 15/12/2025
  Text by Banco ATLANTICO Europa From Lisbon, ATLANTICO Europa connects people, cultures and opportunities, supporting customers from more than 80 countries, who choose Portugal as their second home. Fully licensed The post ATLANTICO Europa appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• Nationality Law still contains ‘inconstitutionalities’, say judges 15/12/2025
  Portugal’s Constitutional Court has decided on the request – put in by PS Socialists – to give the latest version of the Nationality Law a ‘preventive review’. Yet again, the The post Nationality Law still contains ‘inconstitutionalities’, say judges appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• Cascais eyes Estoril Circuit takeover in bid to bring back F1 15/12/2025
  The Cascais municipal council has put forward a plan to take over the management of the Estoril Circuit, with the long-term goal of bringing Formula 1 back to Portugal by The post Cascais eyes Estoril Circuit takeover in bid to bring back F1 appeared first on Portugal Resident.
• Businessman and ‘right hand’ former president of Guinea-Bissau president released after Sunday detention 15/12/2025
  In a story that explains a great deal less than it should, Lusa reports that ‘the man close to former Guinea-Bissau President Sissoco Embaló, who was detained at Figo Maduro The post Businessman and ‘right hand’ former president of Guinea-Bissau president released after Sunday detention appeared first on Portugal Resident.