LISBON: Portugal’s Constitutional Court has blocked a bill approved by the right-wing parliamentary majority that was designed to limit the inflow of immigrants, citing obstacles it creates for family members in joining immigrants legally resident in Portugal. Immediately after late Friday’s decision, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa sent the bill back to parliament, which is […]
The bodies of Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva arrived in northern Portugal on Friday for a wake in their hometown, as tributes continued to pour in after they died in a car accident in Spain. A convoy of hearses left for Gondomar near Porto on Thursday evening from the morgue of Puebla de Sanabria, near where the Lamborghini the brothers were travelling in had veered off the road and burst into flames after midnight early on Thursday. Police said they suspected a tyre had burst. Jota’s wife Rute Cardoso, who had married the footballer just weeks earlier, was seen leaving the morgue and joining the convoy, as was Jota’s longtime agent Jorge Mendes. A wake is expected to take place at a chapel in Gondomar from 4pm (8pm PKT) and a funeral on Saturday at a church nearby at 10am local time, Gondomar’s mayor’s office said. Portugal’s Prime Minister Luis Montenegro arrived in the village on Friday morning. Portugal’s Prime Minister Luis Montenegro arrives at the Chapel of the Resurrection...
Your guide to moving to Portugal as a crypto digital nomad — and why 0% crypto gains tax and an amazing lifestyle makes it a great option. New York-based pre-seed crypto venture firm manager Catrina Wang missed her flight home from a conference in Portugal back in 2022 and ended up loving the country so much she has since moved there permanently. Forced to find a hotel at the last minute, her stay in the beautiful forested area of Sintra made the Canadian-born Wang rethink living in the United States. I was like Wow, Im coming back and I bought a place at the end of 2023, she says. Wang now lives in beachfront Cascais on the outskirts of Lisbon. A general partner at Portal Ventures which manages $120 million in assets across two crypto funds, Wang says theres a growing expat community of crypto founders and VCs, many of whom shoot the breeze in a group chat she curates. There’s been almost a mini exodus of crypto people. A lot of fund managers and successful founders [went] from New York to Lisbon, that’s b...