Lisbon

"No one is forcing Hungary to be part of the European Union," said the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, on Tuesday, October 25. Thus, the EU's top diplomat responded to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's words that The European Union is a "bad modern parody" of the USSR.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received a farewell visit from Portuguese Ambassador to Serbia Maria Virginia Mendes da Silva Pina on Friday and thanked her for helping to strengthen the relations between the two countries through her diplomatic work.

More than 1,000 firefighters are battling a series of wildfires in Portugal as it and neighboring Spain experience several days of extreme summer heat, with temperatures in many areas rising above 40 degrees Celsius (104 F).

Export Credit Greece, which took part last week in the TFX Global 2023: Exports, Agency & Project Finance international conference in Portugal, will next year be the host of TFX Global 2024 in Athens.

Europeans will head to the polls from June 6 to 9, 2024, to elect the next MEPs, Politico reported.

European Union diplomats approved the dates for the European elections on Wednesday, announced the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU.

By electing 705 MEPs from 2024 to 2029, EU citizens could shake up not only the European Parliament but also the European Commission.

Aleksander Čeferin, a 55-year-old Slovenian lawyer, won another term as president of UEFA, the European governing body of football, at the 47th UEFA congress in Lisbon on 5 April.

Čeferin has been at the helm of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) since 2016 and was the only candidate for the job, so the vote, which was unanimous, was a mere formality.

Portugese Prime Minister Antonio Costa has said the alleged attacker in a deadly knife attack in Lisbon was a "relatively young man" with three young children whose wife died in a refugee camp in Greece.

Two women were killed and one person wounded in the knife attack, believed to have been carried out by an Afghan refugee at the Ismaili Center in Lisbon on Tuesday.

A voluntary scheme by European Union member states to accept unaccompanied migrant children from Greece officially ended Tuesday, raising concern over delays still facing the bloc in hammering out a comprehensive new migration agreement.

Thousands of protesters filled downtown Lisbon on March 18 to demand higher wages and pensions, as well as government intervention to cap soaring food prices they say are strangling already tight budgets.

Ben Mitas sipped Vinho Verde from a stemmed wineglass while he watched his daughter play on a swing one afternoon in January. He had bought the wine from a quiosque, the ubiquitous park kiosks, a luxury of living in Lisbon.