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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

Portugal reports 238 deaths related to the ongoing heat wave as it battles more than 30 active wildfires. In France, more than 10,000 people have fled wildfires in Gironde and in Spain, firefighters continue to battle forest fires near the town of Monsagro.
2022-07-15

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

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

Portugal reports 1,394 new daily cases, bringing the cumulative totals to 83,928 confirmed cases and 2,062 deaths. Ever since the end of national lockdown in May, this has been the ninth time that the country has registered some record increases in new cases, with all other eight records occurring since the beginning of September.
2020-10-9

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