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Citizens in Portugal vote for the 230 seats of the Assembly of the Republic.
2024-03-10

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa signs a law legalizing euthanasia.
2023-05-16

The Spanish Congress of Deputies votes 202–141 to definitively approve the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide for people with serious and incurable diseases who want to end their lives, making Spain the fourth country in the European Union to do so.
2021-03-18

Portugal's Constitutional Court rejects a bill legalizing assisted suicide for terminally ill patients as unconstitutional.
2021-03-15

The Spanish Congress of Deputies approves the decriminalisation of euthanasia, becoming the sixth country to do so.
2020-12-17

Portugal reports a record 95 new deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 5,373.
2020-12-11

The Portuguese Assembly of the Republic approves a 15-day extension of the state of emergency beginning November 24 in order to allow a continuation of measures aimed to stop the spread of COVID-19. The current state of emergency will expire on November 23.
2020-11-20

After twice in a single week reporting the biggest daily increases in new cases since the national lockdown was lifted in May, with 646 on Wednesday and then 687 on Friday, Portugal reports another high increase of 673 new cases and seven deaths, bringing the cumulative totals to 63,983 confirmed cases and 1,867 deaths since the first infections were detected in the country on March 2. The 2020-2021 school year is set to start in-person classes between September 14 and September 17 nationwide.
2020-09-13

Portuguese voters head to the polls to elect a new session to the Assembly of the Republic. In line with opinion polls, exit polls show the incumbent Socialist Party winning the most seats, but likely not quite enough to form a majority.
2019-10-6

Exit polls show Portugal’s center-right government, in its first contest since tough austerity measures were launched to combat a debt crisis, is headed for victory, but, could lose its majority in parliament.
2015-10-4