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Lusa - Business News - Portugal: Top news magazine, newspaper headlines on Thursday, 14 May

Lisbon, May 14, 2026 (Lusa) - The Trump and Xi Summit with potential tariff cuts worth $30 billion, the education cost crisis, with Portuguese families spending more than double the EU average on higher education and Afonso Eulálio is the Portuguese rider leading the Giro d’Italia, dominate the headlines this Thursday morning.

 

Visão:

- "The age of fleeting attention. What science says about how quickly we lose concentration"

- "Rosário Palma Ramalho. The dispute labour minister"

- "China vs. the US: awaiting a clash of titans"

- "Comic book series Blake & Mortimer. 80 years of saving the world"

- "A guide to the sea, gastronomy, architecture and history in Matosinhos (northern Portugal)"

 

Diário de Notícias:

- "Young people up to the age of 35 with a master’s degree earn 40% more"

- "Pilgrims bid farewell with a promise to return to Fatima in 2027"

- "It turns out there were three opinions from the CIG gender identity commission against the right-wing legislation"

- "For Xi, Taiwan is at the centre of discussions at the summit with Trump"

- "Streeting (UK Health Secretary of State) is ready to challenge PM Starmer after truce for the King’s Speech"

- "Ludger Gruber, director of the Adenauer Foundation for Spain and Portugal. Germany strengthening its defence ‘is not a militaristic or warlike objective, but a peaceful one’"

- "Cannes festival celebrates Diego Maradona"

- "Fernando Pimenta. 'Those who support athletes continue to be penalised fiscally. That makes no sense'"

 

Correio da Manhã:

- "2025 Annual Report reveals: State broadcaster RTP managers receive 18% pay rise. Board members see pay rise in a year of losses"

- "Conta Lá channel accumulates debts to rival companies"

- "Summit: Trump welcomed in China with a red carpet"

- "Prime minister lights a candle in Fátima"

- "Police close police stations to release 500 officers"

- "Military criticise driving licence and €439 allowance for young people"

- "Benfica. Club president Rui Costa fights for Rúben Amorim (coach)"

- "Afonso Eulálio. Portuguese rider leads the Giro d’Italia"

- "Income tax adjusted for cancer patients"

- "PJ police on the hunt for fraud involving European funds"

- "Ponte de Sor. Shots fired into the air during court escape"

- "Zalazar (Uruguayan footballer) gets married before signing for Sporting. Passes medical tests and signs a five-year deal with the Lions"

 

Público:

- "Families spend more than double the European Union average on higher education"

- "Draft labour bill. Chega (far-right populist party) is open to negotiating with the government; PS (Socialist Party) wants to see the proposal"

- "Sócrates (former prime minister) demands €205,000 over delays in the justice system"

- "Iran recovers missile bases, retains 70% of its stock"

- "Interview. 'Mortality has fallen by 50% on Brisa motorways' - Pires de Lima, head of Brisa’s executive committee"

- "Bank of Portugal. Credit intermediaries continue to rise and now number 6,000"

- "Cycling. There is a new leader in the Giro, and it is a surprise: his name is Afonso Eulálio"

- "Art. Christian Duerckheim, the German who decided to 'give honey to the bees' of Serralves"

- "Obesity levels are stabilising and falling in several countries, including Portugal"

 

Jornal de Notícias:

- "Family ran MB Way (internet payment by mobile phone) scam that claimed 84 victims in six months"

- "Portuguese spend twice as much on their children's university education"

- "Afonso Eulálio cycles his way into the history books at the Giro d'Italia"

- "PS and Chega give the green light to volunteers in the Armed Forces"

- "Sporting pays Braga €30M for Zalazar"

- "Villas-Boas (FC Porto president) wants to hand the number 2 shirt to Diogo Costa"

- "Trump and Xi seek solutions amid a war between blocs"

- "Future AEP avenue to be tree-lined and pedestrianised in Porto"

- "Celebrities lit up the red carpet at the Cannes festival"

 

Negócios:

- "War in Iran is weighing on Portugal's public debt"

- "Lisbon has more, but Faro (southern Portugal) leads in cars per capita"

- "How China is winning the tariff battle"

- "ANAC aviation authority bars Iberia owners from airport handling"

- "Government to approve draft labour bill on Thursday"

- "Azores Airlines has six to eight interested parties"

- "University pays off, but costs more than in the European Union"

 

O Jornal Económico:

- "Listed companies give shareholders 56% of their 5.5B profits"

- "Sarmento (finance minister) challenges parliament to raise VAT on restaurants to 23%"

- "Expenditure per student is 35% below the European Union average"

- "Inflation rose to 3.3% in April, 1% lower than expected"

- "Recovery and Resilience Plan. Companies may lose out on technology transfer and innovation"

- "ANAC admits to excluding Clece/South from the ground handling tender"

- "Credit intermediaries fear a new wave of regulation, says ANICA (Authorised Credit Association) president"

- "Mota-Engil wins €114M contract for railway section"

- "Global oil reserves are running out at a record pace"

- "US and China consider tariff cuts worth $30B"

 

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