Good morning! High temperatures and wildfires continue to dominate the national news landscape. Jornal de Notícias headlines with “Portugal records 88 more deaths in just two days. High temperatures cause a spike in mortality, especially in the north of the country.”
Público reports “Portugal drops to 5th on the list of countries with the highest proportion of emigrants.”
Expresso reveals new polling data in the Lisbon mayoral race: “Poll. Carlos Moedas 30%. Alexandra Leitão 28%. Moedas leads, but Lisbon is wide open. The president scores positively, the state of the city not so much. Alexandra Leitão performs worse in quality testing.”
Check out the newspaper front pages (including the sports press) in the gallery above and all titles in the text below.
Expresso:
– “Business leaders ask Montenegro for easier dismissal rules”
– “Even in Israel, there are voices speaking of genocide. Portugal follows France in recognizing Palestine”
– “Poll. Carlos Moedas 30%. Alexandra Leitão 28%. Moedas leads, but Lisbon is wide open. The president scores positively, the state of the city not so much. Alexandra Leitão performs worse in quality testing”
– “Half of the inspected care homes were illegal”
– “37 summer books for every taste and preference”
– “Proença opposes Benfica in TV rights negotiations”
– “Lisbon Airport bolstered to avoid another August chaos”
– “56 doctors and 229 nurses needed at Amadora-Sintra Hospital”
– “Politicians on vacation dine with grilled fish”
– “65 arsonists are imprisoned in Portuguese jails”
– “Government approves state reform”
– “Stiglitz defends Lula against Trump”
– “Pessoa breaks record at auction”
Público:
– “Portugal drops to 5th on the list of countries with the highest proportion of emigrants”
– “Interview with Mário Ferreira: ‘I paid 105 thousand euros per month over the last six years'”
– “Middle East. Palestine on the UN agenda with Portuguese support”
– “César Aira: ‘Current literature has been reduced to mediocrity'”
– “Cancer. Lung screening advances for heavy smokers”
– “State reform. Government abolishes FCT and reduces education bodies to seven”
– “For two years. New works by Centeno subject to ECB approval”
– “Fires. Burned area surged to 30,000 hectares in five days”
– “Bob Wilson. The great abstract poet who reinvented theater has died”
– “Football. The Super Cup is red: Benfica beats Sporting with a lone goal by Pavlidis”
– “Operation Pretoriano. Fernando Madureira, the leader who worked ‘for a dictatorship’, ended up defeated in prison”
Jornal de Notícias:
– “Portugal records 88 more deaths in just two days. High temperatures cause a spike in mortality, especially in the north of the country”
– “Sporting 0-1 Benfica. Greek twist on the victory chicken”
– “UEFA. Braga advances by bicycle in Europe”
– “Pretoriano. Only Madureira remains in jail”
– “Fires. Burned as much in one week as in the first seven months of this year”
– “Government. State reform cuts high officials”
– “Matosinhos. Renovation of S. Gens homes and businesses”
– “Summer. João Baião savoring Istanbul delicacies”
– “Today. Escapes. With feet in the sand”
Diário de Notícias:
– “Algarve strengthens health and policing to serve a million people in August”
– “War. Portugal will recognize the State of Palestine but only with the support of the President and parties”
– “Ambassador Hamad Ali Alhazeem: ‘I am trying to attract Kuwaiti companies to Portugal, from the private or public sector'”
– “Football. Benfica won the first trophy of the season by defeating Sporting in the Super Cup (1-0)”
– “Mobi Summit. Ribeiro of Algés: 40 million euro redevelopment starts this year”
– “Cinema. The skin, with or without sunburn, in a major Cinematheque cycle”
– “Concert. Jazz returns to Gulbenkian with ‘the best and most original’ in the world”
Correio da Manhã:
– “Businessman killed in front of children”
– “Benfica starts the season in great form”
– “Operation Pretoriano. ‘Macaco’ remains in jail for another year”
– “Sp.Braga 1 – Levski Sofia 0. After extra time. Warriors advance in the Europa League”
– “Santa Clara 2 – Varazdin 0. Azorean team advances in the Conference League”
– “Summer Lives. Controversial Chega candidate heats up Alentejo”
– “Firefighting plane damaged in the Douro River. Populations desperate with advancing flames”
– “Lisbon. Murderer delivers head at hospital and confesses”
– “Incomes. Greece’s minimum wage surpasses Portugal’s”
Negócios:
– “Food inflation at a two-year high”
– “Weekend. Interview with Jeferson Tenório. Changes in immigration? ‘It’s a rather unfriendly law'”
– “Public Sector. ‘We’re going to change the state as never before.’ Gonçalo Saraiva Matias presented the first reform measures”
– “Greenvolt considers entering the battery auction powered by KKR”
– “And two more… Microsoft joins Nvidia as ‘4 trillion dollar baby'”
Jornal Económico:
– “Government launches an extensive investment support package”
– “Banks profit 2.6 billion euros”
– “Esporão enters the capital of Musa beer”
– “Tariffs hit 70% of exports, wine not spared”
– “AHRESP warns of ‘wave of closures'”
O Jogo:
– “Settlement. Eagles correct Jamor disaster and match lions in the Super Cup. Sporting 0 – Benfica 1”
– “Pavlidis scored the decisive goal in a play where Rui Silva was caught out”
– “Rui Borges. ‘Benfica had the game luck, we were superior'”
– “Bruno Laje. ‘We won fairly, we have 15 days of work”
– “Official: Ivanovic at Luz for 22.8 million”
– “FC Porto. Fernando Madureira sentenced to actual imprisonment”
– “FC Porto reaction. ‘A pre-devised plan was proven'”
– “Judge Ana Dias Costa. ‘That was an imposition of a dictatorship and Salazar’s time was long gone”
– “Bednarek’s agent reveals the Dragons’ detailed prior analysis. ‘If he was to leave, it had to be to such a club'”
– “Europa League. Braga-Levski Sofia 1-0. Fran Navarro makes warriors advance”
– “Conference League. Santa Clara-Varazdin 2-0. Azorean grit seals advancement”
A Bola:
– “Pavlidis shone in the dark. Benfica wins their 10th Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup in history”
– “Sporting 0-1 Benfica. ‘We were clearly superior’. Rui Borges. ‘Total credit to the players’. Bruno Lage”
– “FC Porto. Fernando Madureira with actual prison sentence”
– “Navarro’s acrobatics decide everything”
– “Azoreans are the best, period.”
Record:
– “Score settling. Water ended last season losing and starts now by winning. Reds win the 10th Super Cup. Rui Borges: ‘We were clearly superior on all levels’. Bruno Lage: ‘In the Cup, they won and said they were better. Now they lost and too were…'”
– “FCPorto: Macaco stays imprisoned, sentenced to 3 years and 9 months. Can request parole in 1 year”
