Municipal councils

The tax levied on tourists by hotels and accommodation raised €21.4 million of which €13.6 million was from Lisbon. The amounts represent a 61% increase like-for-like on 2022 while they revenues [...]

Portugal’s Finance Minister Fernando Medina has flatly denied that he has been made a legal suspect by Portugal’s Public Ministry or is being investigated on suspicions, voiced by CNN, of a [...]

Some projects in Lisbon are taking five years or more to receive planning permission from Lisbon City Council. A report by Jornal Económico tells of developers which are exasperated over delays [...]

Since Lisbon’s Mayor Carlos Moedas took office in September 2022 after winning an unlikely victory, he decided that he would serve the people, listening to their problems, and get things done. So [...]

Lisbon City Councillors have opposed its Mayor, Carlos Moedas over a project for a new five-star hotel in the city centre. The person behind the project is the Angolan tycoon Isabel dos Santos, [...]

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 [...]

Lisbon City Council’s Municipal Budget 2023 will see revenues of €1.305Bn, but expenditure of the same magnitude. The budget document also foresees €455 million in investment in a series of [...]

Lisbon has won this year’s EU City in the Spotlight Award in the Large Cities category. The award distinguishes cities with over 250,000 inhabitants. It was given to Lisbon because of its [...]

Braga’s dynamic mayor Ricardo Rio was the guest speaker at the International Club of Portugal on Tuesday where he outlined just what makes this city special and why it has won so many [...]