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Noise and Neighbours in Portugal in 2026: A Practical Guide to the Regulamento Geral do Ruído, the 23:00 to 07:00 Rule, When Building Work Is Banned, and How to Make a Complaint Count

There is no general quiet-hours law in Portugal, but there are specific rules with specific times. What the Regulamento Geral do Ruido says about neighbour noise, why building work is banned at weekends, what the police can order at 23:00, and the fines from €200 to €216,000.

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

The Portuguese Navy submarine NRP Tridente alongside a quay at the Lisbon Naval Base at Alfeite

Portugal Buys €21 Million of NATO Procurement Services to Rebuild the Alfeite Naval Base for Its Next Warships

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

The Instituto Superior Tecnico central pavilion on the Alameda campus in Lisbon, seen across its calcada forecourt

Lisbon's New Artificial Intelligence Building Comes In at €8 Million, €1.1 Million Above What the Government Announced

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

The facade of Cinema Sao Jorge on Avenida da Liberdade in Lisbon, its lettered marquee framed by plane trees, with a film festival banner hanging beside the entrance

Portugal Picks From Six Films for an Oscar Category It Has Entered 42 Times Without a Single Nomination

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

Still water at the Paul do Boquilobo nature reserve in Portugal at dawn, reflecting a line of bare winter trees and a tall umbrella pine under a pale sky

188 of the 406 Measures in Portugal's Nature Restoration Plan Say Nothing About Where, Nine Environmental Groups Warn

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

The Instituto do Emprego e Formacao Profissional employment centre in Alcantara, Lisbon, a low stone-fronted building with arched windows, cars parked along the street under a clear sky

Portugal's Pay Transparency Bill Leaves Salaries Out of Job Adverts, and the UGT Says That Guts the Point

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

The floodlit neoclassical Banco de Portugal building on Avenida dos Aliados in Porto at night, its columned facade and central clock tower lit from below behind a row of trees

Markets, Business & Tech Briefing: PSI Up 0.78%, Euribor Tops 3%, Pensions Become a Budget Red Line

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

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Noise and Neighbours in Portugal in 2026: A Practical Guide to the Regulamento Geral do Ruído, the 23:00 to 07:00 Rule, When Building Work Is Banned, and How to Make a Complaint Count

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

Portugal Buys €21 Million of NATO Procurement Services to Rebuild the Alfeite Naval Base for Its Next Warships

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

Lisbon's New Artificial Intelligence Building Comes In at €8 Million, €1.1 Million Above What the Government Announced

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

Portugal Picks From Six Films for an Oscar Category It Has Entered 42 Times Without a Single Nomination

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

188 of the 406 Measures in Portugal's Nature Restoration Plan Say Nothing About Where, Nine Environmental Groups Warn

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

Portugal's Pay Transparency Bill Leaves Salaries Out of Job Adverts, and the UGT Says That Guts the Point

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

Markets, Business & Tech Briefing: PSI Up 0.78%, Euribor Tops 3%, Pensions Become a Budget Red Line

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

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Portugal Buys €21 Million of NATO Procurement Services to Rebuild the Alfeite Naval Base for Its Next Warships

Resolucao do Conselho de Ministros 172/2026 authorises the Navy to spend up to €21 million buying procurement services from NATO's NSPA to repair, improve and expand the maritime and port support installations at Alfeite, ahead of the new ships Portugal has on order.

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

Lisbon's New Artificial Intelligence Building Comes In at €8 Million, €1.1 Million Above What the Government Announced

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

Portugal Picks From Six Films for an Oscar Category It Has Entered 42 Times Without a Single Nomination

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

188 of the 406 Measures in Portugal's Nature Restoration Plan Say Nothing About Where, Nine Environmental Groups Warn

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

Portugal's Pay Transparency Bill Leaves Salaries Out of Job Adverts, and the UGT Says That Guts the Point

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

The Palacio de Sao Bento in Lisbon, seat of the Assembleia da Republica, its columned neoclassical facade under a clear sky with the Portuguese flag flying

Portugal's Anti-Racism Commission Has Ruled on None of the 47 Discrimination Complaints Sitting in Its Files

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

The Banco de Portugal headquarters in Lisbon floodlit at night, its neoclassical facade and corner tower lit against a dark sky

Portugal's Economy Now Carries €894 Billion of Debt, Four Percentage Points More of GDP Than at New Year

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

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Lisbon's New Artificial Intelligence Building Comes In at €8 Million, €1.1 Million Above What the Government Announced

A resolution published in the gazette on Friday raises the ceiling for the AIDE research building at the Instituto Superior Tecnico from €6,878,710 to €8 million after the tender came in high. The 2025 tranche was never spent, and the school now covers €1.5 million from its own revenue.

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

Portugal's Pay Transparency Bill Leaves Salaries Out of Job Adverts, and the UGT Says That Guts the Point

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

Markets, Business & Tech Briefing: PSI Up 0.78%, Euribor Tops 3%, Pensions Become a Budget Red Line

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

Portugal's Economy Now Carries €894 Billion of Debt, Four Percentage Points More of GDP Than at New Year

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

Rows of flowering cannabis plants in a commercial greenhouse, with overhead fans, climate sensors and lighting rigs above the beds

Portugal Exported 66 Tonnes of Medicinal Cannabis in Six Months, Almost as Much as in All of Last Year

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

An apartment block under construction behind a hoarding in Albufeira, with a red tower crane above the concrete frame

Portuguese Building Sites Kept Working in June While the Euro Area's Slowed, Eurostat Data Show

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

A red and white CP Alfa Pendular train waiting at a platform beneath the tree-like steel canopy of Lisbon's Oriente station

The Competition Authority Asks Portugal to Open Its Railways, and Says Any Rival Should Be Able to Use CP's Trains and Drivers

The Portugal Brief 21 Aug 2026

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PSD and CDS Move to Double the Residency Bar for Non-EU Newcomers to Two Years for the New Single Social Benefit — PS Brands the Amendment an 'Approximation to Chega' as the Far Right Holds Out for Five

Portugal's GDP per Capita Falls to 76.2% of the EU Average Once Its Record Population Is Counted — Eurostat's Preliminary 81% Sheds Four Ranking Places to 22nd of 27

ICAD Opens Portugal's First Public Gambling-Addiction Unit in Lisbon on Thursday 19 June 2026 — Treatment Demand Climbed 118% From 358 Patients in 2023 to 782 in 2025

Lower-Back Pain Tops Portugal's Chronic-Illness Ranking, Afflicting 3.2 Million as Hypertension and High Cholesterol Follow

PSD and CDS Move to Double the Residency Bar for Non-EU Newcomers to Two Years for the New Single Social Benefit — PS Brands the Amendment an 'Approximation to Chega' as the Far Right Holds Out for Five

Portugal's GDP per Capita Falls to 76.2% of the EU Average Once Its Record Population Is Counted — Eurostat's Preliminary 81% Sheds Four Ranking Places to 22nd of 27

ICAD Opens Portugal's First Public Gambling-Addiction Unit in Lisbon on Thursday 19 June 2026 — Treatment Demand Climbed 118% From 358 Patients in 2023 to 782 in 2025

BdP Lifts 2026 Investment Forecast to 4.5% on Sines Start Campus Data-Center Surge — Imports Re-Rated to 3.7%, Goods Balance Slides to -0.2% of GDP

Portugal Buys €21 Million of NATO Procurement Services to Rebuild the Alfeite Naval Base for Its Next Warships

188 of the 406 Measures in Portugal's Nature Restoration Plan Say Nothing About Where, Nine Environmental Groups Warn

Portugal's Pay Transparency Bill Leaves Salaries Out of Job Adverts, and the UGT Says That Guts the Point

Portugal's Anti-Racism Commission Has Ruled on None of the 47 Discrimination Complaints Sitting in Its Files

Gaia Abandons a €700,000 Plan to Fence the Jardim do Morro Three Days After Announcing It

Portugal Exported 66 Tonnes of Medicinal Cannabis in Six Months, Almost as Much as in All of Last Year

Portuguese Building Sites Kept Working in June While the Euro Area's Slowed, Eurostat Data Show

Portugal Declares a National Public Interest in Assembling Embraer's Super Tucano, and Points at Beja Air Base

Casino Estoril's Owner Is €35 Million Short of the Capital Its Gaming Licence Requires, and Its Staff Met Shareholders at the Door

Portugal's Car Plants Built a Fifth Fewer Vehicles in July, and a Single Factory Explains Almost All of It