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Researcher Catarina Reis de Oliveira, from the Migration Observatory, today called for greater efforts from authorities to demystify stereotypes associated with immigrants and “combat these false perceptions” that stigmatize them.

In a week in which attacks on immigrants in Porto are in the news, Catarina Reis de Oliveira highlighted that “statistical evidence” does not link immigrants with crime and that Portugal does not have a high number of foreign citizens compared to the European average.

Suspect, 26 years old, attacked two people in the same morning at different times.

A 26-year-old man was arrested by the Judicial Police (PJ), in the early hours of this Thursday, in Porto, on suspicion of having stabbed two foreigners in attacks motivated by racism.

The detainee is suspected of two crimes of attempted qualified homicide, two crimes of discrimination and incitement to hatred and violence and one crime of robbery, committed in the early hours of Tuesday.

The two stabbings occurred at different but successive times on the public highway.

The patriarch of Lisbon today defended, "to do justice" to the identity of the Portuguese people, the opening of society to immigrants, who today do what many Portuguese did in the past.

"I think, even to do justice to what is our identity, from all points of view, this openness to those who seek us out, who do not come to take anything from us", said Rui Valério in an interview with Lusa, after a year in office.

The Office of Economic, Business and Public Policy Studies (G3E2P) of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto (FEP) presented the third and final chapter of the publication “Economy & Business”, which analyses demographic trends in European Union countries between 1999 and 2022.

The study reveals that emigration in the EU, since the beginning of the millennium, has been predominantly composed of immigrants who, initially attracted by better living conditions, end up leaving in search of new economic opportunities in other countries.

With the proposal for a referendum on immigration on the table, Chega insisted this Monday and Tuesday on the need to create quotas for immigrants during the Parliamentary Conferences in Castelo Branco. This idea was widely opposed by the secretary-general of the Confederation of Farmers of Portugal (CAP), Luís Mira, and the president of the Confederation of Tourism of Portugal (CTP), Francisco Calheiros, two of the speakers on the panels on the Portuguese economy and the rural world, who warned of the lack of labor in both sectors and the losses to the economy.

All foreigners who registered with Social Security before June 3 and are contributing will be able to regularize their situation, if the proposal is approved.

What should be done in these cases? What documents ensure that no sanctions will be applied? Is the passport valid? Is the NIF (Taxpayer Identification Number) valid? Can people be expelled from the country?

Metro will provide buses between Telheiras and Campo Grande and between Telheiras, Alvalade and Lumiar/University City. 

The Government announced this Monday the end of the exceptional regime that allowed a foreigner to enter Portugal and only then apply for a residence permit.

The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, promulgated this Monday the change in the law on foreigners that ends the exception regime that allowed immigrants to regularize themselves in Portugal, through the legal form of expressions of interest.