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When Carlos Moedas won Lisbon City Hall in the municipal elections in September 2021 by a tight margin he faced a politically hostile group of councillors in which his PSD party was in the [...]

The Spanish mayor of Olivenza, Manuel José González Andrade, stressed that Portugal and Spain could not forget the border town’s shared past at a lunch organised by the International Club of [...]

Lisbon’s dynamic new mayor is to find €500 million to invest in the Portuguese capital to make it “a sustainable city”. The former property consultant and EU commissioner for Research, Innovation [...]

Former EU commissioner Carlos Moedas has won the race for Lisbon City Hall and is, against all the odds, Lisbon’s new mayor. The mayoral candidate, who was considered a rank outsider by media and [...]

A new mega city projected for the South bank of Lisbon’s Tagus river at Almada will involve an €800 million investment and could create 17,000 new jobs. The ‘Innovation District’ project from the [...]

Fernando Medina has been Lisbon’s mayor for six years and is about to stand for a second term. In that six years he has achieved ambitious plans, greening the city, attracting international [...]

Both the US and EU have made unprecedented monetary and fiscal mechanisms available to cope with the shutdown of their economies between March to May and beyond. This cash will help stimulate the [...]

Ambition and vision are needed to transform cities like Lisbon into population centres that emotionally and psychologically engage with its inhabitants on all levels: culturally, socially, [...]

Since taking the helm at Cascais Council in 2011, Mayor Carlos Carreiras has adopted a forward-looking approach to developing and managing Portugal’s famous Cascais and Estoril Riviera. The plan? [...]