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Lusa - Business News - Portugal: Top newspaper headlines on Friday, 26 September

Lisbon, Sept. 26, 2025 (Lusa) - Tax incentives for home purchases and rentals, as well as next month's local elections, are featured on several front pages on Friday.

 

 Expresso:

- "PS admits to replacing Chega and approve new immigration law"

- "Portugal produces Ukrainian kamikaze drones"

- "The most thorough medical examination in the world"

- "DGS considers restricting energy drinks to minors"

- "Local elections. Pizarro (narrowly) leads the race in Porto"

- "PS has 79 councils at risk of electoral erosion"

- "Municipal debt has fallen by 43 per cent in the last decade"

- "Free transport won't take cars out of cities"

- "Plan requested by the government displaces doctors from 12 maternity hospitals"

- "142 managers and entrepreneurs ask for tax relief in the Budget"

- "Jimmy Kimmel is back, but censorship is installed in the US"

- "The silver stolen from the Spanish embassy"

- "Tax authorities hand over invoices for the construction of Montenegro's house"

- "There's a shortage of primary teachers"

- "Health problem benefited Ventura"

- "Labour law only after elections"

- "Parliament gives Álvaro the green light"

 

Diário de Notícias:

- "Right-wing voters and those in favour of tax cuts abstain the most"

- "Defence. Swedish company Saab challenges the United States on the sale of fighter jets to Portugal"

- "Local elections in Cascais. Middle-class housing and transport are the other side of the coin in the land of privilege"

- "Measures. Government moves on housing to shake up the sector"

- "Easyjet CEO: NAV is inefficient. It's time to think about privatising it"

- "France. Historic conviction: 5 years for Sarkozy for campaign financing by Libya"

- "Rafaela Ferraz: I don't think much about death. I think about the dead a lot"

- "History. 50 years since the assault on the Spanish embassy: the day when anger at Francoism created a diplomatic incident"

 

Correio da Manhã:

- "In Carrapateira, Aljezur. Drug traffickers with weapons of war. GNR hunts down seven men and seizes arsenal"

- "Benfica-Gil Vicente. Mourinho says it's Rios and ten others"

- "Salzburg 0 FC Porto 1. Dragão rock and triumph with Austrian waltz"

- "Sporting. Rui Borges is already counting on reinforcements"

- "Vila Nova de Foz Coa. Priest films sexual practices"

- "Housing package. Fiscal shock wants to put 45,000 homes up for rent"

- "Sidney and Nélida. Suspected triple murderers with sex in prison"

- "200 kilometres from home. Newborn baby from Loures urgently operated on in Coimbra"

- "IGAS concludes. Inspection links death to INEM strike"

 

Público:

- "Misericórdias prepare to take back two hospitals as early as 2026"

- "Portrait of 9 artists. Portuguese comics flourish freely"

- "Houses up to 648,000 euros and rents up to 2,300 with tax incentives"

- "Gaza. Spain and Italy send ships to escort solidarity flotilla"

- "Local elections. Stories of hunger and exclusion in Ponta Delgada"

- "End of SEF. Police are controlling more immigrants on the streets"

 

Jornal de Notícias:

- "GNR catches gang with weapons of war on Algarve beach"

- "Salzburg 0-1 FC Porto. Prince William. The Brazilian striker scored a great goal in the last gasps of a lacklustre game"

- "Benfica. Mourinho doesn't expect affection at the Dragão"

- "Government cuts VAT on homes up to 648,000 euros to 6%"

- "Guimarães. The PDM controversy and unfinished housing dominate the candidates' debate"

- "E-Lar programme. Voucher to change cooker and water heater must be used in one go"

- "Fires. 40 tonne drop in honey production"

- "Serralves. Autumn Festival with 150 free activities"

 

Nascer do Sol:

- "Admission of women causes unprecedented stampede at GOL"

- "Interview. Carlos Carreiras. Politics in Portugal is sick. I don't believe there can be Formula 1 at the Estoril Autodrome again"

- "Unexpected interview. José Gameiro: It would be good for the world if Melania Trump fell in love with Putin"

- "40,000 immigrants eligible to vote in local councils"

- "Eduardo Oliveira e Silva. Presidential elections: immigrants can decide"

- "Influencer case prosecuted in Operation Marquês"

- "Manager suspected in “Red Card” wins prize at Novo Banco"

- "Government wants EU Customs Authority in Porto"

- "João Catarré. 'I'm direct and truthful'"

- "Liberals raise reservations about party accounts"

- "Enough. “Shadow minister” represents Arabs"

- "Santiago do Cacém. PSD and PS support the same candidate"

- "José Luís Pinto de Sá. Lisbon's funiculars: modernise or scrap"

 

Negócios:

- "Middle class will have to pay VAT on E-Lar"

- "Immortality: the new luxury for the elite"

- "Housing package. Moderate-income contracts up to 2,300 euros only pay 10 per cent IRS..."

- "... and investing in this type of rent will give you exemption from IMT, IMI and AIMI"

- "142 leaders of the largest companies insist on a reduction in persnal and company income tax before the State Budget"

- "Elections. Councils go to the polls in October with more solid accounts"

- "Interview. Stefan Gerlach. France must change before the situation demands more drastic measures"

 

Jornal Económico:

- "Housing package, 6 per cent VAT for rents and construction"

- "We invited people who think for themselves to discuss the European Union"

- "A former governor, a former European commissioner and the CEO of CTT, Tranquilidade, Greenvolt, Visa and the Santander Foundation joined the Economy and Defence ministers. The head of FIPA, a presidential candidate, the former boss of Stellantis, and other decision-makers also took part."

- "Hovione invests 200 million in Seixal"

- "Saudis want more business from Portuguese SMEs"

- "America and Sweden want to sell aeroplanes to Portugal..."

- "... and China wants to supply scanners to ports and airports"

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