The Connecting Europe Express starts today from Lisbon: the hop-on hop-off train will connect 26 countries in 36 days in a celebration of the European Year of Rail 2021

The municipal tourist tax charged in the capital Lisbon has brought to the city over 260 million euros in almost 10 years - in 2024 it amounted to nearly 49,51 million euros

Centre-right Democratic Alliance won an early parliamentary election, third in three years, but again fell short of the full majority needed to end a long political turmoil; centre-left Socialists and far-right Chega were nearly tied for second place

A rail strike in defense of salary increases and collective bargaining is expected to end today after having affected up to 70% of trains in key hours for commuters' transport for several days

Authorities in Portugal have ruled out a cyberattack as cause of the massive blackout that paralyzed the country this week though an investigation on the causes of the outage is still ongoing