Lisbon, Oct. 28, 2025 (Lusa) - The 2026 draft state budget bill debate in parliament, results of the Argentina presidential election, Donald Trump’s tour of Asia and Airbus wants Eurofighter Typhoon jets to replace the American F-16s in the Portuguese air force dominate the headlines this Tuesday morning.

Correio da Manhã:

- ‘Preferred savings product. Term deposits hit new record’

- ‘Parents of children with cancer demand more support against the disease’

- ‘Moreirense 1 FC Porto 2. Fighting Dragon secures league leadership’

- ‘Benfica elections. Mourinho decisive in Rui Costa's accounts’

- ‘Sporting-Alverca. Ioannidis is an asset for the League Cup’

- ‘Draft state budget debate. Fuel brings Salazar into the conversation’

- ‘Amadora School. Girl reports paedophile stepfather’

- ‘Health. Emergency Medicine trains in 22 clinical areas’

- 'Demands explanations. Chega posters spark Bangladesh protest‘

- ’Argentinian elections. Milei receives vote of confidence‘

- ’Trafficking of women. Portugal on the route of paramilitary crime‘

Público:

- ’Without the EU recovery and resilience programme, Portugal returns to the bottom of Europe in investment‘

- ’Interview with presidential candidate António José Seguro. Are you left-wing? “Why do they try to pigeonhole me?”‘

- ’Argentina. Milei gets authorisation to continue using chainsaw‘

- ’Labour market. AI, ageing and migration require more emotional and social skills‘

- ’Louvre Museum heist. If they wanted valuable stones, the thieves could have chosen better"

- 'Managed by private companies. Public properties will provide 10,000 affordable rents by 2035‘

- ’Nationality Law. Far-right Chega Party makes new concession to get closer to the Social Democrats (PSD)‘

- ’Lisbon schools. Lisbon city council backs down on vegetarian menu restrictions‘

- ’Refugee status. Associations denounce delays in regularisations"

Jornal de Notícias:

- ‘Change in the law does not prevent former ministers from setting up companies in the area they oversaw’

- "Moreirense 1-2 F. C. Porto. Head-scratcher. Deniz Gul secures victory in the final moments of a difficult game in which Porto were losing‘

- ’Player assaulted after complaining about nine months of unpaid wages‘

- ’FC Porto volleyball players score points off the court‘

- ’PM Luis Montenegro rejects PS proposal to raise lower pensions. Extraordinary supplement only with budget surplus‘

- ’Maia. Association that takes in children at risk of closing. State funding is insufficient: €50,000 still needed‘

- ’Oliveira de Frades. Siemens to lay off 100 workers‘

- ’Music. Paulinho will only stop when he “can no longer carry his guitar”"

Diário de Notícias:

- ‘Almost one million patients, rise of 25%, waiting for their first appointment’

- ‘Leadership. Asian leaders praise Trump, the “peacemaker”, amid tension in the US’

- ‘Defence. There is another candidate to replace the F16 fighter jets in Portugal: the Airbus Eurofighter’

- 'Cinema. Views of the Mediterranean, the festival of female resistance'

- ‘Economy. Philippe Tibi: “The industrial revolution is a domestication of mechanical force; AI is a domestication of cognitive force”’

- ‘Budget. State budget margin “is very short”, no extra for low pensions, but minimum wage increases’

- 'Lisbon. The young liberal who beat the PS in Campolide after 16 years: “It wasn't easy”‘

- ’Global Summit. Foreign affairs minister Paulo Rangel: Government sees “cooperativism as an affirmation of civil society”‘

- ’Benfica presidential elections. Diogo Manteigas votes for Noronha Lopes, but Vieira remains neutral in the second round"

Negócios:

- ‘Politics wins battle over bank mergers. Brussels wants consolidation, but member states resist. Four countries, four cases of government influence. Big banks yes, but not in my country’

- ‘Luís Simões “is not for sale” and has little desire to buy’

- ‘Radar Africa. N'Gunu Timy claims to be the solution to the crisis in Sao Tome and Príncipe’

- ‘Burger King still fuels discord within Ibersol’

- ‘With a ‘very short margin’, the government tries to take space away from the opposition in the budget’

- ‘EU funds. European bazooka did little for businesses, says EU Auditors Court report’

- ‘Energy. Bacalhau field off Brazil will contribute to Galp's profits from 2027’

O Jornal Económico:

- ‘Ferreira Leite advocates government that invests “as much as possible”’

- 'Eurofighter. The European consortium Airbus, which manufactures the Typhoon, wants these fighter jets to replace the American F-16s in the Portuguese Air Force. And it wants to identify Portuguese suppliers to include in the process‘

- ’Galp will only have a 100% Brazilian well in 2027‘

- ’Milei's big win energises the European right"

- ‘Sporting secures 225 million to invest in Alvalade Stadium’

- ‘“VAT harmonisation in the agri-food sector cannot be delayed”. Centromarca. Nuno Fernandes Thomaz says EY is preparing a study on the subject’

- ‘NOS revenues rise, but lack of extraordinary items causes profits to fall by 9%’

- ‘AI in the public sector could add 1.2 billion to the economy’

- ‘Likely agreement between Trump and Xi Jinping boosts stock markets’

- ‘Asseco wants to go shopping in Portugal next year’

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