Lisbon, Oct. 10, 2024 (Lusa) - Portugal's leading newspapers and news magazines on Thursday offer headlines looking at the right-of-centre coalition government's draft budget for 2025, which is to be submitted to parliament in the afternoon, with no clear path to approval given that no agreement was reached with the main opposition Socialist Party despite weeks of negotiations and policy retreats.

Correio da Manhã:

- "Budget punishes petrol and diesel"

- "Carbon tax hike offsets IRS [personal income tax] relief"

- "Civil service minimum wage 50 [euro] cents higher than private sector"

- "Benfica squad worth 483 million" euros

- "FC Porto: Attack on [club president André] Villas-Boas in the walls of the Dragon" stadium

- "Sporting: Alarm over harassment of Hugo Viana"

- "Vila Real: Suspect mayor finances national meeting of judges"

- "Carla Leal: Body dragged 100km out to sea"

- "Family under siege hands over triple murderer" in high-profile Lisbon shooting case

- "Fugitive suspect caught in Pinhal Novo"

- "SIC and Maria João Avillez [journalist who interviewed PM Luís Montenegro on Tuesday] risk fine"

- "Storm leaves trail of destruction." 

Visão:

- "Guterres, the lone fighter" - UN secretary-general António Guterres, former Portugal PM

- "Report in Lebanon. The fight for survival"

- "Se7e. 25 series to watch on TV"

- "Revelations. The most caricatured episodes in Portuguese politics"

- "Science. The poison of toxic people"

Sábado: 

- "Dukes of Palmela. The saga of Portugal's richest family"

- "Portraits. Alexandra de Lencastre, Simone and 98 other famous people as you've never seen them"

- "Reportage. 13 hours with PSD parliamentary leader Hugo Soares trying to save the budget"

Público: 

- "Government has already created more working groups than [former, Socialist PM António] Costa did in two years"

- "Budget. Scope for surplus may be smaller than government predicts"

- Minister of infrastructure Miguel "Pinto Luz: “I'd be very surprised” if the PS voted against"

- "Culture hopes to increase funding by 18 percent"

- "RTP. [Comedian, presenter] Bruno Nogueira to return to television"

- "Parliament. Delay in appointments leaves complaints of racism in the void"

- "Mobility. Road operators worried about new pass"

- "Middle East. Israeli operation in Gaza kills dozens and traps 400,000"

- "Long Covid. Almost half the people who had the disease still have symptoms"

Jornal de Notícias: 

- Porto mayor Rui "Moreira attacks government for delay preventing video surveillance in Porto"

- "Storm Kirk. Trail of destruction in the north and centre"

- "Hurricane Milton. Millions fleeing in Florida"

- "'We have time' to decide on budget vote" - says opposition Socialist leader Pedro Nuno Santos in television interview 

- "FC Porto. Samu off to a better start than Jardel or Falcao" - previous club stars

- "Benfica. Águia gives up the most players (17) to the national teams"

- "Triple murderer was with his father at relatives" house"

- "Report. Arsonists responsible for a third of this year's fires"

- "Education. Schools without solutions for 125,000 dyslexic pupils"

- "Television. Series recreates [architect Tomás] Taveira's sex scandal" 

Diário de Notícias: 

- "Hurricanes and politics. Biden and Harris try to deal with the impact of 'Milton' on the campaign"

- "What is known about the possible State Budget that will be delivered today"

- PM Luís "Montenegro more reliable than [president] Marcelo" Rebelo de Sousa, according to poll of voters

- "Justice. PJ [Judicial Police] detains triple murderer from Lisbon. He was 35 kilometres from the crime scene"

- "Interview. Miguel Xavier: 'Portugal is below the required level in its response to common psychiatric disorders'"

- "Consumption. Spending in supermarkets and hypermarkets growing by almost 5 percent to over 10 billion euros"

- "Nobel Prize in Chemistry. And man created proteins. Artificial Intelligence dominates the Chemistry Nobel"

Negócios: 

- "17 measures in the State Budget for 2025 that will affect companies and families"

- "Privatisation of TAP attracts candidates from outside Europe"

- "There are three new suspicions of fraud with EU funds"

- "France has become riskier. Rating is the next test"

- "Real estate. Old Porto stadium to get 300 million [euros in] investment"

- "United States. [Leading US-based economist Nouriel] Roubini says Trump's victory will generate an economic shock"

O Jornal Económico:

- "UTAO [budget watchdog] applauds budget without budgetary 'knights'"

- "Jornal Económico 8th anniversary conference. [Minister of Economy] Pedro Reis and [banker António] Horta-Osório argue in favour of reducing corporate income tax to increase wages and competitiveness"

- "Government will only include IRC reduction for 2025" after yielding to opposition Socialist demands

ARO // ARO. 

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